netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 -next v2] tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for cls and act front-end

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Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:02:38 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, stephen@...workplumber.org
CC:	jiri@...nulli.us, jhs@...atatu.com, tgraf@...g.ch,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 -next v2] tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for
 cls and act front-end

On 4/1/15 8:57 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> This work finalizes both eBPF front-ends for the classifier and action
> part in tc, it allows for custom ELF section selection, a simplified tc
> command frontend (while keeping compat), reusing of common maps between
> classifier and actions residing in the same object file, and exporting
> of all map fds to an eBPF agent for handing off further control in user
> space.
>
> It also adds an extensive example of how eBPF can be used, and a minimal
> self-contained example agent that dumps map data. The example is well
> documented and hopefully provides a good starting point into programming
> cls_bpf and act_bpf.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

great work!
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>


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