From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 23:06:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170508230619.2d339edd@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494102610-19853-1-git-send-email-alexander@alemayhu.com>
On Sat, 6 May 2017 22:30:10 +0200
Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com> wrote:
> sparc64 support was added in 7a12b5031c6b (sparc64: Add eBPF JIT., 2017-04-17)[0]
> and ppc64 in 156d0e290e96 (powerpc/ebpf/jit: Implement JIT compiler for extended BPF, 2016-06-22)[1].
>
> [0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7a12b5031c6b
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=156d0e290e96
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
> ---
> man/man8/tc-bpf.8 | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8 b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> index e371964d06ab..2e9812ede028 100644
> --- a/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> +++ b/man/man8/tc-bpf.8
> @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ In Linux, it's generally considered that eBPF is the successor of cBPF.
> The kernel internally transforms cBPF expressions into eBPF expressions and
> executes the latter. Execution of them can be performed in an interpreter
> or at setup time, they can be just-in-time compiled (JIT'ed) to run as
> -native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64 and s390 architectures have
> -eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have cBPF, but did not
> -(yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
> +native machine code. Currently, x86_64, ARM64, s390, ppc64 and sparc64
> +architectures have eBPF JIT support, whereas PPC, SPARC, ARM and MIPS have
> +cBPF, but did not (yet) switch to eBPF JIT support.
>
> eBPF's instruction set has similar underlying principles as the cBPF
> instruction set, it however is modelled closer to the underlying
Applied thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-09 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 20:30 [PATCH iproute2] tc: bpf: add ppc64 and sparc64 to list of archs with eBPF support Alexander Alemayhu
2017-05-07 0:23 ` David Miller
2017-05-07 15:20 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-09 6:06 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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