From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:43:52 +0100
> In the last year a lot of progress have been made on offloading
> simpler TC classifiers. There is also growing interest in using
> BPF for generic high-speed packet processing in the kernel.
> It seems beneficial to tie those two trends together and think
> about hardware offloads of BPF programs. This patch set presents
> such offload to Netronome smart NICs. cls_bpf is extended with
> hardware offload capabilities and NFP driver gets a JIT translator
> which in presence of capable firmware can be used to offload
> the BPF program onto the card.
>
> BPF JIT implementation is not 100% complete (e.g. missing instructions)
> but it is functional. Encouragingly it should be possible to
> offload most (if not all) advanced BPF features onto the NIC -
> including packet modification, maps, tunnel encap/decap etc.
...
Series applied, thanks.