netdev - Re: [patch iproute2 2/2] tc: add support for BPF based actions

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Date:	Wed, 7 Jan 2015 10:50:47 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 2/2] tc: add support for BPF based actions

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
> +       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... bpf ...\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, " [inline]:     run bytecode BPF_BYTECODE\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, " [from file]:  run bytecode-file FILE\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "Where BPF_BYTECODE := \'s,c t f k,c t f k,c t f k,...\'\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "      c,t,f,k and s are decimals; s denotes number of 4-tuples\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "Where FILE points to a file containing the BPF_BYTECODE string\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "\nACTION_SPEC := ... look at individual actions\n");
> +       fprintf(stderr, "NOTE: CLASSID is parsed as hexadecimal input.\n");

Can we just use BPF transparently for gact? It is never user-friendly to
use this kind of bytecode even though I know there is a tool to "compile"
BPF.
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