From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: PF_RING: Include in main line kernel? Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091014.131526.181354809.davem@davemloft.net> References: <200910141319.43884.bcook@bpointsys.com> <903D7FEC-34E8-4F70-ABC0-E56A3A5FBBE6@ntop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bcook@bpointsys.com, brad.doctor@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: deri@ntop.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47667 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932342AbZJNUPa (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <903D7FEC-34E8-4F70-ABC0-E56A3A5FBBE6@ntop.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Luca Deri Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:54:26 +0200 > - packets to be filtered using both BPF and ACL-like filters To me this is all that PF_RING adds, the ACL filter features. And I see no reason why that can't be added to PF_PACKET, we've extended PF_PACKET in many ways before (even the mmap ring buffer layout can be modified trivially) so there is no reason we can't add the ACL filter feature to PF_PACKET as well. Adding all of PF_RING just for that is a joke.