On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 05:19:48PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>
> Good, I'm all for reaching those numbers, we can optimize the generic
> IR if this ever becomes the bottleneck.
The 'generic IR' got mentioned hundred times in this thread,
but what was proposed is not generic. It doesn't even
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:19:48 +0100
> I see no reason to have as many hooks as frontends to start with. If
> you find limitations with the IR that are unfixable for any of the
> existing frontends in the future, then we can add direct hook as final
> solution.
I see no
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:47:14 +0100
> The frontend parser should be generic to everyone, it should be
> placed in the core, so everyone will take care of improving it.
Generic unfortunately means information loss and lots of wasted work.
And this is one of John's point
On 16-02-26 08:19 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:42:25AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
>> On 16-02-26 03:47 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> The parser on the backend is not the way to go. I would expect it
>>> will not take long time until we see other people copying/pas
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:42:25AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 16-02-26 03:47 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > The parser on the backend is not the way to go. I would expect it
> > will not take long time until we see other people copying/pasting it
> > and adapting it to their need just bec
On 16-02-26 03:47 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:11:36AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
>> On 16-02-25 09:37 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patchset contains the core infrastructure for the generic
>>> intermediate representation that I presented during N
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:11:36AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 16-02-25 09:37 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patchset contains the core infrastructure for the generic
> > intermediate representation that I presented during NetDev 1.1's
> > nftables switchdev talk. This inc
On 16-02-25 09:37 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patchset contains the core infrastructure for the generic
> intermediate representation that I presented during NetDev 1.1's
> nftables switchdev talk. This includes the basic infrastructure to
> convert the tc cls_u32 based on John's p
Hi,
This patchset contains the core infrastructure for the generic
intermediate representation that I presented during NetDev 1.1's
nftables switchdev talk. This includes the basic infrastructure to
convert the tc cls_u32 based on John's parser.
The main goals of this patchset are:
* Provide an
