From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AF_PACKET mmap() v4...
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:27:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <563ECF1B.1000306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151108021958.GA39441@ast-mbp.thefacebook.com>
On 15-11-07 06:19 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:39:15AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 11/05/2015 10:07 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 00:04:14 David Miller wrote:
>>>> As part of fixing y2038 problems, Arnd is going to have to make a new
>>>> version fo the AF_PACKET mmap() tpacker descriptors in order to extend
>>>> the time values to 64-bit.
>
> would also be quite useful to add ability to attach metadata to packet
> from bpf program.
> Right now we can only trim the length. Would be great if program could
> compute something and pass it along with packet as metadata.
Also most modern NICs can generate metadata using packet filters
it would be nice to allow these to populate any metadata fields as well.
Ethtool already has a flow classifier feature that could be easily
extended once the stack has support.
.John
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-08 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-05 5:04 AF_PACKET mmap() v4 David Miller
2015-11-05 6:53 ` Richard Cochran
2015-11-05 8:14 ` Guy Harris
2015-11-05 15:32 ` David Miller
2015-11-05 9:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-05 9:39 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-05 11:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-11-05 12:56 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-05 16:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-11-05 22:56 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-06 11:34 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-11-08 2:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-11-08 4:27 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2015-11-09 10:54 ` Daniel Borkmann
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