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author | Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2018-06-01 09:09:08 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2018-06-01 09:12:07 +0200 |
commit | 1bd9b61222f3a81ffe770fc00b70ded6e760c42b (patch) | |
tree | 0bf7d996cf0664796687c1be6d22958fcf6a8096 /doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst | |
parent | bb4e158029645f37809fcf81a3acddd6fa11f88a (diff) |
New upstream version 18.05
Change-Id: Icd4170ddc4f63aeae5d0559490e5195b5349f9c2
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c08e6b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bpf_lib.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause + Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation. + +Berkeley Packet Filter Library +============================== + +The DPDK provides an BPF library that gives the ability +to load and execute Enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) bytecode within +user-space dpdk application. + +It supports basic set of features from eBPF spec. +Please refer to the +`eBPF spec <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/filter.txt>` +for more information. +Also it introduces basic framework to load/unload BPF-based filters +on eth devices (right now only via SW RX/TX callbacks). + +The library API provides the following basic operations: + +* Create a new BPF execution context and load user provided eBPF code into it. + +* Destroy an BPF execution context and its runtime structures and free the associated memory. + +* Execute eBPF bytecode associated with provided input parameter. + +* Provide information about natively compiled code for given BPF context. + +* Load BPF program from the ELF file and install callback to execute it on given ethdev port/queue. + +Not currently supported eBPF features +------------------------------------- + + - JIT for non X86_64 platforms + - cBPF + - tail-pointer call + - eBPF MAP + - skb + - external function calls for 32-bit platforms |