netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] netfilter: nf_tables: add BPF-based jit infrastructure

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Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:53:55 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        laforge@...filter.org, fw@...len.de, daniel@...earbox.net,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] netfilter: nf_tables: add BPF-based jit
 infrastructure

Hi David,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:53:34PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> I'm very suprised that this is generating classical BPF filters.
>
> We have native eBPF and that is what anything generating new code
> should be using, rather than the 20+ year old CBPF.

I'm not the only one that likes 90s interfaces after all ;-)

I'll explore how to generate eBPF code in the next patchset version.

Thanks!