netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] bpf: Enable BPF JIT on ppc32

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQJ2kONF03avXmcvKpwTaZ74wOLzcTjTOLKt1=XoY01Yqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:02:40 -0500
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
Cc:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] bpf: Enable BPF JIT on ppc32

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org> wrote:
> On 2/15/15, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
>> On 02/15/2015 07:06 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
>>> This patch series enables BPF JIT on ppc32. There are relatevily
>>> few chnages in the code to make it work.
>>>
>>> All test_bpf tests passed both on 7447a and P2041-based machines.
>>
>> I'm just wondering, next to the feedback that has already been
>> provided, would opening this up for ppc32 make it significantly
>> more difficult in future to migrate from classic BPF JIT to eBPF
>> JIT eventually (which is what we want long-term)? Being curious,
>> is there any ongoing effort from ppc people?
>>
>
> Well, I don't see significant challenges to enable eBPF on ppc64 in the future.
> I'll start working on it after I get this merged

sounds great. looking forward to it :)
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