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
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