netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Implement XDP bpf

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Date:   Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:48:36 -0700
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
CC:     brouer@...hat.com, andy@...yhouse.net, daniel@...earbox.net,
        ast@...com, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        bjorn.topel@...el.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        ecree@...arflare.com, sgoutham@...ium.com, Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Implement XDP bpf_redirect vairants

On 07/07/2017 10:34 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
> This series adds two new XDP helper routines bpf_redirect() and
> bpf_redirect_map(). The first variant bpf_redirect() is meant
> to be used the same way it is currently being used by the cls_bpf
> classifier. An xdp packet will be redirected immediately when this
> is called.

Also other than the typo in the title there ;) I'm going to CC
the driver maintainers working on XDP (makes for a long CC list but)
because we would want to try and get support in as many as possible in
the next merge window.

For this rev I just implemented on ixgbe because I wrote the
original XDP support there. I'll volunteer to do virtio as well.

Thanks,
John