Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:54:52 +0300 From: "Vlad GALU" <dudu@dudu.ro> To: "Robert Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BPF plans for 7.1 Message-ID: <ad79ad6b0809211354mc30766bu8db71d0c0d123af6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809211120520.58772@fledge.watson.org> References: <ad79ad6b0809201331p75393f44o277abd94f3b20e55@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809211120520.58772@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Vlad GALU wrote: > >> Will the zero-copy bpf(4) changes be merged to the stable branch before >> the release? > > Dear Vlad: > > Unfortunately, no. The code seems stable in 8-CURRENT, but I don't feel > it's had enough actual testing exposure to go into 7.x yet. Also, the > libpcap changes to support it have only just gone back into the tcpdump.org > distribution of libpcap, and there is non-trivial reworking of that code, so > we'd like to let that settle as well. We've had a number of queries so I > suspect we'll start maintaining a 7.x MFC candidate patch fairly soon (next > couple of months). > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > Thanks for your quick reply! I'll start experimenting with HEAD. -- ~/.signature: no such file or directory
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