netdev - Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2019-04-12

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Date:   Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2019-04-12

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 01:25:46 +0200

> The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
> 
> The main changes are:
> 
> 1) Improve BPF verifier scalability for large programs through two
>    optimizations: i) remove verifier states that are not useful in pruning,
>    ii) stop walking parentage chain once first LIVE_READ is seen. Combined
>    gives approx 20x speedup. Increase limits for accepting large programs
>    under root, and add various stress tests, from Alexei.

+1

> Please consider pulling these changes from:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git

Pulled, thanks Daniel.