From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, leonerd@leonerd.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: New BGF 'LOOP' instruction
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:05:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803140539.GE31096@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100803.060754.26959298.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:07:54AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
Well you could generalize it, like "SKIP headers where length
is at offset X and type at offset Y"
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 14:05 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
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 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-08-03 14:11 ` RFC: New BGF " Paul LeoNerd Evans
2010-08-03 14:34 ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100803140539.GE31096@basil.fritz.box \
--to=andi@firstfloor.org \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=leonerd@leonerd.org.uk \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).