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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] bpf: add PHYS_DEV prog type for early driver
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Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 09:55:50 +0200
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Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
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On 04/09/16 at 10:26am, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 11:29:18AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > If this is _forwarding only_ it maybe useful to look at
> > Alexey's old code in particular the DMA bits;
> > he built his own lookup algorithm but sounds like bpf is
> > a much better fit today.
> 
> a link to these old bits?
> 
> Just to be clear: this rfc is not the only thing we're considering.
> In particular huawei guys did a monster effort to improve performance
> in this area as well. We'll try to blend all the code together and
> pick what's the best.

What's the plan on opening the discussion on this? Can we get a peek?
Is it an alternative to XDP and the driver hook? Different architecture
or just different implementation? I understood it as another pseudo
skb model with a path on converting to real skbs for stack processing.

I really like the current proposal by Brenden for its simplicity and
targeted compatibility with cls_bpf.

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