Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/1] Add BPF suuport to Qemu

[Sameeh Jubran]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 05:37:10PM +0300, Sameeh Jubran wrote:
> > This patch is actually a preparation for an upcoming patch set that I
> want
> > to integrate into virtio-net which implements the RSS feature. (
> > https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201805/msg00024.html)
> > So there is a use case. The rationale behind this is to distinguish the
> > infrastructure preparation needed for the BPF from the actual RSS feature
> > implementation.
>
> Ah, so IIUC, that is not actually doing network filtering, rather it is
> some performance related feature than happens to make of use of BPF.
>
> I think it is be important to submit code changes for the virtio driver
> at the same time, so we can properly understand the interface and usage
> model exposed to the user CLI (if any).
>
I understand, but I thought about adding the bpf support in an elegant way
that might serve others in the future.

>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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