Hi Jerin,
>
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> >
> > BPF is used quite intensively inside Linux (and BSD) kernels
> > for various different purposes and proved to be extremely useful.
> >
> > BPF inside DPDK might also be used in a lot of places
> > for a lot of similar things.
> > As an example to:
> > - packet filtering/tracing (aka tcpdump)
> > - packet classification
> > - statistics collection
> > - HW/PMD live-system debugging/prototyping - trace HW descriptors,
> > internal PMD SW state, etc.
> > ...
> >
> > All of that in a dynamic, user-defined and extensible manner.
> >
> > So these series introduce new library - librte_bpf.
> > librte_bpf provides API to load and execute BPF bytecode within
> > user-space dpdk app.
> > It supports basic set of features from eBPF spec.
> > Also it introduces basic framework to load/unload BPF-based filters
> > on eth devices (right now via SW RX/TX callbacks).
>
> It is an interesting feature.
> I am yet to catch up on your implementation details.
> Meanwhile, I have tried to run non JIT version on arm64.
> I had some compilation issue with 4.9 kernel with gcc 5.3 toolchain.
> Following patch fixes that.
>
> Just wondering what we will do with FreeBSD, May it better to
> kill the dependency of linux/filter.h and different kernel versions
> by making bpf_impl.h self sufficient. Just a thought.
Good point, have pretty much same thought:
we already have some rudimentary bpf-related include:
drivers/net/tap/tap_bpf.h
which is uder dual(bsd and gpl) license.
Might be we can move it to lib/librte_net/bpf (or so)
and extend to contain all necessary bpf related stuff.
Then could be used by both TAP PMD and librte_bpf
and might be something else in future.
Konstantin
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_bpf/bpf_impl.h b/lib/librte_bpf/bpf_impl.h
> index f094170..e500e26 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_bpf/bpf_impl.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_bpf/bpf_impl.h
> @@ -13,6 +13,26 @@
> extern "C" {
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef BPF_JLT
> +#define BPF_JLT 0xa0 /* LT is unsigned, '<' */
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef BPF_JLE
> +#define BPF_JLE 0xb0 /* LE is unsigned, '<=' */
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef BPF_JSLT
> +#define BPF_JSLT 0xc0 /* SLT is signed, '<' */
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef BPF_JSLE
> +#define BPF_JSLE 0xd0 /* SLE is signed, '<=' */
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef EM_BPF
> +#define EM_BPF 247 /* Linux BPF - in-kernel virtual machine
> */
> +#endif
> +
