Re: BPF_MISC+BPF_COP and BPF_COPX

[Adrian Chadd <adrian%freebsd.org@localhost>]

On 4 August 2013 15:54, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> Adrian Chadd <adrian%freebsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>> I think it's slightly unfair to propose a new extension for BPF
>> without any in-tree users.
>>
>
> We have in-tree user in NetBSD as mentioned in the previous email:

Ah, cool. I missed that.

>> > It provides us a capability to offload more complex packet processing.
>> > My primary user would be NPF in NetBSD, e.g. one of the operations is to
>> > lookup an IP address in a table/ipset.
>
> I would like to coordinate the reservation of BPF opcodes though.

That's a good idea. I have no problem with that.



-adrian