On 04/03/16 at 12:02am, Brenden Blanco wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:39:45PM -0400, Tom Herbert wrote: > > Is there a hard restriction that this could only work with physical devices? > I suppose not, but there wouldn't be much use case as compared to tc > ingress, no? Since I was imagining that this new hook would be more > restricted in functionality due to operating on descriptors rather than > with a full skb, I tried to think of an appropriate name. > > If you think that this hook would spread, then a better name is needed.
The thing that comes to mind is that this prog type makes it easier to implement batched processing of packets in BPF which would require major surgery across the tc layer to make it available in cls_bpf. Batched processing will be beneficial for software devices as well.
