netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] net: add bpfilter

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Message-Id: <20180219.134327.1844519322067284323.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:43:27 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arturo@...filter.org
Cc:     laforge@...monks.org, daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] net: add bpfilter

From: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@...filter.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:06:12 +0100

> Yes, probably major datacenters (google? facebook?, amazon?) they
> don't even care about what Debian is doing, since they are crafting
> their own distro anyway.  But there are *a lot* of other people that
> do care about these migration plans.

"Lots" is a big word that gets thrown around quite carelessly.

What do you imagine is the order of magnitude of cloud and big
datacenter server system deployments vs. individual servers and
whatnot?

I have to take into consideration what will really have the largest
impact on the largest number of people, and I am pretty sure I know
where that lies.