On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 19:20, John Fastabend <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cong Wang wrote: > > From: Cong Wang <[email protected]> > > > > Currently TCP_SKB_CB() is hard-coded in skmsg code, it certainly > > does not work for any other non-TCP protocols. We can move them to > > skb ext instead of playing with skb cb, which is harder to make > > correct. > > > > Cc: John Fastabend <[email protected]> > > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> > > Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Lorenz Bauer <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]> > > --- > > I'm not seeing the advantage of doing this at the moment. We can > continue to use cb[] here, which is simpler IMO and use the ext > if needed for the other use cases. This is adding a per packet > alloc cost that we don't have at the moment as I understand it.
John, do you have a benchmark we can look at? Right now we're arguing in the abstract.
