tree 0fb121bb44e532307c10a3b7e4154f60381ebbbc
parent 94caee8c312d96522bcdae88791aaa9ebcd5f22c
author Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> 1426860672 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1426893044 -0400

act_bpf: add initial eBPF support for actions

This work extends the "classic" BPF programmable tc action by extending
its scope also to native eBPF code!

Together with commit e2e9b6541dd4 ("cls_bpf: add initial eBPF support
for programmable classifiers") this adds the facility to implement fully
flexible classifier and actions for tc that can be implemented in a C
subset in user space, "safely" loaded into the kernel, and being run in
native speed when JITed.

Also, since eBPF maps can be shared between eBPF programs, it offers the
possibility that cls_bpf and act_bpf can share data 1) between themselves
and 2) between user space applications. That means that, f.e. customized
runtime statistics can be collected in user space, but also more importantly
classifier and action behaviour could be altered based on map input from
the user space application.

For the remaining details on the workflow and integration, see the cls_bpf
commit e2e9b6541dd4. Preliminary iproute2 part can be found under [1].

  [1] http://git.breakpoint.cc/cgit/dborkman/iproute2.git/log/?h=ebpf-act

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>