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Date:	Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:53:17 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net: filter: Just In Time compiler

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 00:28 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> In order to speedup packet filtering, here is an implementation of a JIT
> compiler for x86_64

Then put it under arch/x86!

[...]
> diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
> index 79cabf1..04a1726 100644
> --- a/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/net/Kconfig
> @@ -232,6 +232,11 @@ config XPS
>  	depends on SMP && SYSFS && USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
>  	default y
>  
> +config BPF_JIT
> +	boolean
> +	depends on X86_64
> +	default y
[...]

This should presumably be:
	depends on HAVE_BPF_JIT
while arch/x86/Kconfig would define HAVE_BPF_JIT.

Ben.

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