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Date:      Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:49:36 +0000
From:      Daniel Peyrolon <tuchalia@gmail.com>
To:        George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        soc-status@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status reports for "JIT for firewalling"
Message-ID:  <CA%2ByaQw_Tm0Ciwsbe-_PY_tVvpAT_rsaujz54Nv6jAFDXxZH7nw@mail.gmail.com>
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Yes, all of that is commited at my repo.

El mar., 4 ago. 2015 a las 14:13, George Neville-Neil (<gnn@freebsd.org>)
escribi=C3=B3:

> Sounds very promising.
> Have you committed an pushed the changes that made everything
> start to work?  Even if that's just a set of notes, rather than code,
> that ought to be preserved.
>
> Best,
> George
> On 3 Aug 2015, at 9:15, Daniel Peyrolon wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Finally we have the firewall working!
> > I get a kernel panic whenever I try to filter an unbounded number of
> > packets, but it doesn't when filtering a small amount of packets.
> >
> > The things to do now are:
> >   - Test that the emission of all the new rules is working properly, an=
d
> > test that rule.
> >   - Avoid kernel panic. This will take a longer time, but we need this =
in
> > order to get the firewall working in real-world systems.
> >   - Write flow modifying rules: Given that I've been out of the game fo=
r
> > so long, I haven't been able to get those rules written yet, but luckil=
y
> > they are only two rules, and its implementation shouldn't be hard.
> >
> > El lun., 27 jul. 2015 a las 20:36, Daniel Peyrolon (<tuchalia@gmail.com
> >)
> > escribi=C3=B3:
> >
> >> Hi again,
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I haven't been able to make any further progress.
> >> I've been having a lot of problems to get the compiler working. I test=
ed
> >> many different hypotheses about the bug with no success so far, and I'=
ve
> >> talked with David Chisnall to see if he could lend me a hand and he ha=
s
> >> given me some pointers. So, hopefully, I'll be past this stage this
> week.
> >>
> >> El lun., 20 jul. 2015 a las 15:43, George Neville-Neil (<
> gnn@freebsd.org>)
> >> escribi=C3=B3:
> >>
> >>> Seems like the next thing to do is build from source as David suggest=
s.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> George
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 20 Jul 2015, at 4:47, Daniel Peyrolon wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> This has not been a productive week. I've been so far unable to get
> >>>> the
> >>>> compiler working, I contacted David Chinsall as I said, and I have
> >>>> been
> >>>> looking to make everything works. The initialization process of LLVM
> >>>> is not
> >>>> working as expected, which may be related to a bad install (we have
> >>>> already
> >>>> disarded that), a bad building process, or a bad LLVM initialization
> >>>> process. Given the fact that the LLVM API has changed a lot since th=
e
> >>>> last
> >>>> time, that may be possible.
> >>>>
> >>>> El s=C3=A1b., 11 jul. 2015 a las 12:24, Daniel Peyrolon
> >>>> (<tuchalia@gmail.com>)
> >>>> escribi=C3=B3:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi everyone,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This last pair of weeks I've written the code needed to compile
> >>>>> almost all
> >>>>> the rules, except those that modify control flow: call and skipto.
> >>>>> For
> >>>>> those ones I will have to write them by hand on LLVM IR.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I also started working on the testing code. I'm using conductor to
> >>>>> control the different hosts. I already have reserved a pair of host=
s
> >>>>> from
> >>>>> the netperf cluster in order to get that running.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So far I haven't been able to test anything because the compiler is
> >>>>> not
> >>>>> working yet, there has been a change in the API of LLVM since I las=
t
> >>>>> worked
> >>>>> with it, I sent an email to my past mentor, David Chisnall asking f=
or
> >>>>> advice.
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Daniel
> >>>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Daniel
> >>>
> >> --
> >> Daniel
> >>
> > --
> > Daniel
>
--=20
Daniel



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