Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 -next v2] tc, bpf: finalize eBPF support for cls and act front-end

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:35:33 -0700

On Wed,  1 Apr 2015 17:57:44 +0200
Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]> wrote:

> This work finalizes both eBPF front-ends for the classifier and action
> part in tc, it allows for custom ELF section selection, a simplified tc
> command frontend (while keeping compat), reusing of common maps between
> classifier and actions residing in the same object file, and exporting
> of all map fds to an eBPF agent for handing off further control in user
> space.
> 
> It also adds an extensive example of how eBPF can be used, and a minimal
> self-contained example agent that dumps map data. The example is well
> documented and hopefully provides a good starting point into programming
> cls_bpf and act_bpf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>

Applied to net-next branch of iproute2