On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 10:32:52AM +0000, Stokes, Ian wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The recent DPDK 18.05 release provides BPF functionality for DPDK devices. >> >> The BPF Library provides the ability to load and execute Enhanced Berkeley >> Packet Filters (eBPF) within user-space DPDK applications. It also >> introduces a basic framework to load/unload BPF-based filters on Eth devices >> (right now only via SW RX/TX callbacks). It also adds a dependency on libelf. >> >> I'm just wondering if anyone is currently looking at BPF in OVS (either >> kernel or userspace). Specifically, if BPF will be supported in a future OVS >> release then is there a need to coordinate on the approach of how it is >> enabled?
Yes, we are actively working on eBPF datapath for the same features in OVS kernel datapath. Hopefully we can get to a stable state and send an RFC patch next month. Does BPF functionality for DPDK support eBPF map and helper functions? Regards, William _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
