Re: [PATCH bpf-next] cgroup: support attaching eBPF programs to net_prio cgroup

From: Yafang Shao
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 10:57:05 EST


On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:38:48PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote:
>> If net_prio is used, we could also use eBPF programs to attach it,
>> because the net_prio cgroup could be got with prioidx in struct
>> sock_cgroup_data.
>> Hence it should not only be limited to cgroup2.
>
> I really don't wanna do this. This comes with all sorts of reverse
> lookup and naming issues. In addition, cgroup1 and 2 aren't mutually
> exclusive. If the use case is on cgroup1 and wants to use cgroup bpf
> programs, just replicate the cgroup2 hierarchy for bpf. Hierarchy
> replication across different controllers is how most use cgroup1 after
> all. With recent versions of systemd which defaults to using cgroup2
> for process management, you get the replication for free too.
>

Hi Tejun,

I don't understand what do you mean Hierarchy replication.
Could you pls. show me some examples ?


Thanks
Yafang