Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] bpf: add support for persistent maps/progs

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On 10/16/15 9:43 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> Hi Alexei,
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015, at 18:18, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On 10/16/15 3:25 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > > Namespaces at some point dealt with the same problem, they nowadays use
> > > bind mounts of/proc/$$/ns/* to some place in the file hierarchy to keep
> > > the namespace alive. This at least allows someone to build up its own
> > > hierarchy with normal unix tools and not hidden inside a C-program. For
> > > filedescriptors we already have/proc/$$/fd/* but it seems that doesn't
> > > work out of the box nowadays.
> >
> > bind mounting of /proc/../fd was initially proposed by Andy and we've
> > looked at it thoroughly, but after discussion with Eric it became
> > apparent that it doesn't fit here. At the end we need shell tools
> > to access maps.
>
> Oh yes, I want shell tools for this very much! Maybe even that things
> like strings, grep etc. work. :)

yes and the only way to get there is to have it done via fs.

> > Also I think you missed the hierarchy in this patch set _is_ built with
> > normal 'mkdir' and files are removed with 'rm'.
>
> I did not miss that, I am just concerned that if the kernel does not
> enforce such a hierarchy automatically it won't really happen.

if it's easier for user to work with single level of directories,
it should be able to do so. It's not a job of the kernel to enforce
how user space apps should be designed.

> Oh, tracing does not allow daemons. Why? I can only imagine embedded
> users, no?

yes and for networking: restartability and HA.
cannot really do that with fuse/daemons.

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