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From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 net-next 00/15] BPF hardware offload (cls_bpf for now)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:16:50 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> In the last year a lot of progress have been made on offloading
> simpler TC classifiers.  There is also growing interest in using
> BPF for generic high-speed packet processing in the kernel.
> It seems beneficial to tie those two trends together and think
> about hardware offloads of BPF programs.  This patch set presents
> such offload to Netronome smart NICs.  cls_bpf is extended with
> hardware offload capabilities and NFP driver gets a JIT translator
> which in presence of capable firmware can be used to offload
> the BPF program onto the card.

Looks great! Thanks for all the hard work.