netdev - Re: RFC: New BPF 'LOOP' instruction

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Message-ID: <f350f48de92da479bfb224527bc70c10@chewa.net>
Date:	Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:16:02 +0200
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
To:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: New BPF 'LOOP' instruction


On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:13:13 +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans
<leonerd@...nerd.org.uk> wrote:
> Is there any way it could be done lazily, at the moment that filter.c
> knows it has to provide either SKF_TRANS_OFF or SKF_AD_TRANSPROTO?

You would essentially need to implement dedicated parsing for each
protocols family.
So you might as well add an opcode dedicated to IPv6...

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis

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