netdev - Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2017-12-18

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Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:51:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     ast@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2017-12-18

From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 01:33:07 +0100

> The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
> 
> The main changes are:
> 
> 1) Allow arbitrary function calls from one BPF function to another BPF function.
>    As of today when writing BPF programs, __always_inline had to be used in
>    the BPF C programs for all functions, unnecessarily causing LLVM to inflate
>    code size. Handle this more naturally with support for BPF to BPF calls
>    such that this __always_inline restriction can be overcome. As a result,
>    it allows for better optimized code and finally enables to introduce core
>    BPF libraries in the future that can be reused out of different projects.
>    x86 and arm64 JIT support was added as well, from Alexei.

Exciting... but now there's a lot of JIT work to do.

 ...
> Please consider pulling these changes from:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git

Pulled, thanks!