From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: leonerd@leonerd.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:07:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803.060754.26959298.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxt3etut.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:58:02 +0200
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
>>
>> That makes the looping construct largely useless, which I mentioned in
>> my second reply to this thread.
>
> How about simply adding a "skip ipv6 extension headers until header type
> X" opcode?
>
> I bet that would solve most of the problems here in practice.
BPF really should not have protocol specific opcodes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 11:03 RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-02 11:13 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-02 20:16 ` RFC: New BGF " Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-03 5:18 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 7:07 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 7:19 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 9:10 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-03 13:40 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 9:03 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2010-08-03 7:18 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 5:13 ` RFC: New BGF " David Miller
2010-08-03 7:04 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 7:18 ` David Miller
2010-08-03 12:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-03 13:07 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-03 13:34 ` RFC: New BPF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 13:42 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:09 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 14:13 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:16 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 14:19 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 15:17 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2010-08-03 15:27 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:05 ` RFC: New BGF " Andi Kleen
2010-08-03 14:11 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:34 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
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