On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 18:21 -0700, Brenden Blanco wrote: > This patch set introduces new infrastructure for programmatically > processing packets in the earliest stages of rx, as part of an effort > others are calling Express Data Path (XDP) [1]. Start this effort by > introducing a new bpf program type for early packet filtering, before > even > an skb has been allocated. > > With this, hope to enable line rate filtering, with this initial > implementation providing drop/allow action only.
Since this is handed to the driver in some way, I assume the API would also allow offloading the program to the NIC itself, and as such be useful for what Android wants to do to save power in wireless? johannes
