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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 2013 23:54:12 +0100
From:      Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind@netbsd.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        tech-net@netbsd.org, guy@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BPF_MISC+BPF_COP and BPF_COPX
Message-ID:  <20130804225434.87A9C14A152@mail.netbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokkbWCWmYng1QCpKOrfDuOC=0J1mjRX-kNDQj2%2BYO1rjA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20130804191310.2FFBB14A152@mail.netbsd.org> <9813E50B-C557-4FE1-BADF-A2CFFCBB8BD7@felyko.com> <20130804195538.C87A614A135@mail.netbsd.org> <CAJ-VmokkbWCWmYng1QCpKOrfDuOC=0J1mjRX-kNDQj2%2BYO1rjA@mail.gmail.com>

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Adrian Chadd <adrian@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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