From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>,
Linux NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, simon.horman@netronome.com,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, prem@barefootnetworks.com,
Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>,
mattyk@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com, eladr@mellanox.com,
yotamg@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
dsa@c
Subject: Re: Let's do P4
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:47:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161031074751.GA1679@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHo-Ooz82uFsf6F=pU-jrR-KOADWuRmkiAfKaB_sQGc=4N7z4g@mail.gmail.com>
Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 07:03:53AM CET, zenczykowski@gmail.com wrote:
>One thing to consider...
>
>Just because the compiler could be in the kernel, doesn't mean it has to be.
>
>One could envision a hotplug/modprobe like helper program that the
>kernel executes
>when it wants to translate from one encoding (say p4) to another (say [e]bpf).
>
>This keeps complexity (compiler) out of the kernel, while still
>allowing us to have
>the illusion of only one interface to sw/hw. And it has the nice
>benefit of allowing us
>to use existing compiler toolchains...
This idea was repeatedly marked as unacceptable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-31 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-29 7:53 Let's do P4 Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 9:39 ` Thomas Graf
2016-10-29 10:10 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 11:15 ` Thomas Graf
2016-10-29 11:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 12:09 ` Thomas Graf
2016-10-29 13:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 14:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-10-29 14:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 14:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-10-29 14:55 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-29 16:46 ` John Fastabend
2016-10-30 7:44 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-30 10:26 ` Thomas Graf
2016-10-30 16:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-30 17:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-10-30 18:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-30 18:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-10-30 19:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-30 21:14 ` John Fastabend
2016-10-30 22:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2016-10-31 6:03 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2016-10-31 7:47 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2016-10-31 9:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-31 16:53 ` John Fastabend
2016-10-31 17:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-31 18:32 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2016-10-31 19:35 ` John Fastabend
2016-11-01 8:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-11-01 15:13 ` John Fastabend
2016-11-02 8:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-11-02 15:18 ` John Fastabend
2016-11-02 15:23 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-11-02 2:29 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-11-02 5:06 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2016-11-02 8:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-11-02 15:22 ` John Fastabend
2016-11-02 15:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-10-30 20:54 ` John Fastabend
2016-11-01 11:57 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2016-11-01 15:03 ` John Fastabend
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