netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 -next v2] tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for cls and act front-end

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:35:33 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	ast@...mgrid.com, jiri@...nulli.us, jhs@...atatu.com,
	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 -next v2] tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for
 cls and act front-end

On Wed,  1 Apr 2015 17:57:44 +0200
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:

> This work finalizes both eBPF front-ends for the classifier and action
> part in tc, it allows for custom ELF section selection, a simplified tc
> command frontend (while keeping compat), reusing of common maps between
> classifier and actions residing in the same object file, and exporting
> of all map fds to an eBPF agent for handing off further control in user
> space.
> 
> It also adds an extensive example of how eBPF can be used, and a minimal
> self-contained example agent that dumps map data. The example is well
> documented and hopefully provides a good starting point into programming
> cls_bpf and act_bpf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

Applied to net-next branch of iproute2
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