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From: Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:36:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221143602.GA3229@swarm.cs.pub.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1112191226160.2907@xanadu.home>

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:31:19PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
> > On 12/18/2011 05:49 PM, Mircea Gherzan wrote:
> > > +	select HAVE_BPF_JIT if (!THUMB2_KERNEL && AEABI)
> > 
> > No thumb2. That's a shame...
> 
> I think this would be more sensible to make a Thumb2 kernel properly 
> interoperate with this and keep the JIT code simple rather than having 
> to duplicate all this for Thumb2.

The JITed code interoperates properly with a Thumb2 kernel as of v3 of
the patch.

> > BLX is v5+ only. It probably fine to make the JIT v5+ only. There's
> > probably not much v4 h/w that would use this.
> 
> While you might be right, I don't think it is that big a cost to make 
> this support ARMv4 too.  In fact, if slow ARMv4 systems are still 
> routing packets out there, they are likely to see a huge benefit from 
> this.

This has also been addressed in v3.

Mircea

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-18 23:49 [PATCH] ARM: net: JIT compiler for packet filters Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-19  2:26 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-12-19  2:49 ` Rob Herring
2011-12-19 17:31   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-21 14:36     ` Mircea Gherzan [this message]
2011-12-19 17:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-21 14:43   ` Mircea Gherzan
2011-12-21 15:07     ` Nicolas Pitre
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-18 23:48 Mircea Gherzan

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