netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] bpf: add PHYS_DEV prog type for early driver filter

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Message-ID: <570A96BF.5080608@mojatatu.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2016 14:09:03 -0400
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>,
	john fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	eranlinuxmellanox@...il.com, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] bpf: add PHYS_DEV prog type for early driver
 filter

On 16-04-10 12:53 PM, Tom Herbert wrote:

> We started discussions about this in IOvisor. The Huawei project is
> called ceth (Common Ethernet). It is essentially a layer called
> directly from drivers intended for fast path forwarding and network
> virtualization. They have put quite a bit of effort into buffer
> management and other parts of the infrastructure, much of which we
> would like to leverage in XDP. The code is currently in github, will
> ask them to make it generally accessible.
>

Cant seem to find any info on it on the googles.
If it is forwarding then it should hopefully at least make use of Linux
control APIs I hope.

cheers,
jamal