From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@ovn.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, wangnan0@huawei.com, ast@fb.com,
daniel@iogearbox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] tools lib bpf: Synchronize implementations
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 11:48:18 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161101.114818.117755564770907199.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161031183917.9938-1-joe@ovn.org>
From: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:39:14 -0700
> Update tools/lib/bpf to provide more functionality and improve interoperation
> with other tools that generate and use eBPF code.
>
> The kernel uapi headers are a bit newer than the version in the tools/
> directory; synchronize those.
>
> samples/bpf/libbpf* has a bit more functionality than tools/lib/bpf, so extend
> tools/lib/bpf/bpf* with these functions to bring them into parity.
>
> tools/lib/bpf cannot read ELFs that tc can read, and vice versa. Update the
> map definition to be the same as in tc so the ELFs may be interchangeable
> (at least for now; I don't have a long-term plan in mind to ensure this always
> works).
Alexei and Daniel, please review.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-01 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-31 18:39 [PATCH net-next 0/3] tools lib bpf: Synchronize implementations Joe Stringer
2016-10-31 18:39 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] tools lib bpf: Sync {tools,}/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h Joe Stringer
2016-10-31 18:39 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] tools lib bpf: Sync with samples/bpf/libbpf Joe Stringer
2016-11-02 2:52 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-11-02 3:50 ` Joe Stringer
2016-10-31 18:39 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] tools lib bpf: Sync bpf_map_def with tc Joe Stringer
2016-11-02 3:09 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-11-02 4:09 ` Joe Stringer
2016-11-02 14:12 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-11-02 15:08 ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-11-01 15:48 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-11-01 20:51 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] tools lib bpf: Synchronize implementations David Ahern
2016-11-01 22:17 ` Joe Stringer
2016-11-02 2:46 ` Daniel Borkmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-11-01 22:04 Alexei Starovoitov
2016-11-02 19:04 ` David Miller
2016-11-02 19:12 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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