From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:31:33 -0400
> From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.com> > > Allow programmable fanout modes. Support both classical BPF programs > passed directly and extended BPF programs passed by file descriptor. > > One use case is packet steering by deep packet inspection, for > instance for packet steering by application layer header fields. > > Separate the configuration of the fanout mode and the configuration > of the program, to allow dynamic updates to the latter at runtime. > > Changes > v1 -> v2: > - follow SO_LOCK_FILTER semantics on filter updates > - only accept eBPF programs of type BPF_PROG_TYPE_SOCKET_FILTER > - rename PACKET_FANOUT_BPF to PACKET_FANOUT_CBPF to match > man 2 bpf usage: "classic" vs. "extended" BPF. Series applied, although I hope that synchronize_net() doesn't become a scalability issue in some workload in the future. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
