From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bifrost.lang.hm (mail.lang.hm [64.81.33.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23E8021F546 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id sBC0Siph008358 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:28:44 -0800 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:28:44 -0800 (PST) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] eBPF filters for traffic classification? X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:29:13 -0000 http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/625224/2edd6566c16cf76d/ A new capability is being added to the 3.19 kernel that allows writing BPF programs that run in the kernel that can do things like classifying traffic. Right now all this can do is to store information to be retrieved by userspace, but I wonder if it would be useful to use something like this for traffic classification for queue selection, traffic throttling, etc? David Lang