netdev - Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 00/15] BPF hardware offload (cls

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Message-ID: <20160915201649.GA74880@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:16:50 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        jiri@...nulli.us, john.fastabend@...il.com, kubakici@...pl
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 00/15] BPF hardware offload (cls_bpf for now)

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> In the last year a lot of progress have been made on offloading
> simpler TC classifiers.  There is also growing interest in using
> BPF for generic high-speed packet processing in the kernel.
> It seems beneficial to tie those two trends together and think
> about hardware offloads of BPF programs.  This patch set presents
> such offload to Netronome smart NICs.  cls_bpf is extended with
> hardware offload capabilities and NFP driver gets a JIT translator
> which in presence of capable firmware can be used to offload
> the BPF program onto the card.

Looks great! Thanks for all the hard work.