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Message-ID: <563ECF1B.1000306@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:27:07 -0800 From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com> To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: AF_PACKET mmap() v4... On 15-11-07 06:19 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:39:15AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote: >> On 11/05/2015 10:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 00:04:14 David Miller wrote: >>>> As part of fixing y2038 problems, Arnd is going to have to make a new >>>> version fo the AF_PACKET mmap() tpacker descriptors in order to extend >>>> the time values to 64-bit. > > would also be quite useful to add ability to attach metadata to packet > from bpf program. > Right now we can only trim the length. Would be great if program could > compute something and pass it along with packet as metadata. Also most modern NICs can generate metadata using packet filters it would be nice to allow these to populate any metadata fields as well. Ethtool already has a flow classifier feature that could be easily extended once the stack has support. .John > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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