netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] bpf: add a longest prefix match trie map implementation

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Date:   Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:57:01 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
Cc:     ast@...com, dh.herrmann@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] bpf: add a longest prefix match trie map
 implementation

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 05:26:11PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote:
> This trie implements a longest prefix match algorithm that can be used
> to match IP addresses to a stored set of ranges.
> 
> Internally, data is stored in an unbalanced trie of nodes that has a
> maximum height of n, where n is the prefixlen the trie was created
> with.
> 
> Tries may be created with prefix lengths that are multiples of 8, in
> the range from 8 to 2048. The key used for lookup and update operations
> is a struct bpf_lpm_trie_key, and the value is a uint64_t.
> 
> The code carries more information about the internal implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>

Looks great to me.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>