netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: bpf: support direct packet access

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Message-Id: <20171014.111345.2200540382966516687.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: bpf: support direct packet access

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:34:06 -0700

> The core of this series is direct packet access support.  With a
> small change to the verifier, the offloaded code can now make
> use of DPA.  We need to be careful to use kernel (after initial
> translation) offsets in our JIT.  Direct packet access also brings
> us to the problem of eBPF endianness.  After considering the 
> changes necessary we decided to not support translation on both
> BE and LE hosts, for now.
> 
> This series contains two fixes - one for compare instructions and
> one for ineffective jne optimization.  I chose to include fixes
> in this set because the code in -net works only with unreleased
> PoC FW (ABI version 1) and therefore nobody outside of Netronome
> can exercise it anyway.

Series applied, thank you.