Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] bpf: add PHYS_DEV prog type for early driver filter

[Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 12:39:45PM -0400, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Brenden Blanco <bblanco@plumgrid.com> wrote:
> > Add a new bpf prog type that is intended to run in early stages of the
> > packet rx path. Only minimal packet metadata will be available, hence a new
> > context type, struct xdp_metadata, is exposed to userspace. So far only
> > expose the readable packet length, and only in read mode.
> >
> This would eventually be a generic abstraction of receive descriptors?
Exactly. For instance, maybe let the hw's hash be available.
> 
> > The PHYS_DEV name is chosen to represent that the program is meant only
> > for physical adapters, rather than all netdevs.
> >
> Is there a hard restriction that this could only work with physical devices?
I suppose not, but there wouldn't be much use case as compared to tc
ingress, no? Since I was imagining that this new hook would be more
restricted in functionality due to operating on descriptors rather than
with a full skb, I tried to think of an appropriate name.

If you think that this hook would spread, then a better name is needed.
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