BPF_MISC+BPF_COP and BPF_COPX

Mindaugas Rasiukevicius rmind at netbsd.org
Sun Aug 4 22:54:36 UTC 2013


Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I think it's slightly unfair to propose a new extension for BPF
> without any in-tree users.
> 

We have in-tree user in NetBSD as mentioned in the previous email:

> > It provides us a capability to offload more complex packet processing.
> > My primary user would be NPF in NetBSD, e.g. one of the operations is to
> > lookup an IP address in a table/ipset.

I would like to coordinate the reservation of BPF opcodes though.

-- 
Mindaugas


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