netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] net: Generalize udp based tunnel offload

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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 02:40:38 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] net: Generalize udp based tunnel offload

On 12/08/15 at 10:10am, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 15-12-08 09:23 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> >On 15-12-08 02:33 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> 
> >;-> I feel a little vindicated with this discussion.
> >
> >Of course you can implement hardware using BPF!
> 
> BTW - Just to be clear; I am not arguing for what that paper
> preaches. What the paper preaches is an academic exercise
> (square hole, round peg - must fit into OF description).
> What i am saying is you can take the ebpf instruction set and
> create a cpu that executes those instructions.

I'm still having a difficulty trying to understand what exactly
the intended proposal around this is. You may have just answered
my question but just to make sure: When people refer to
implementing or interpreting BPF in hardware, do they mean:

 1) A limited BPF instruction set used as descriptive language
    to define match/action logic?
 2) A specific (versioned) BPF instruction set which hardware
    can support?
 3) The full BPF instruction set of the current kernel + all
    defined helper functions and tail call support?

Would programs of 2) and 3) nature be simply rejected or would
the driver convert them somehow?
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