The return of nftables
The return of nftables
Posted Aug 22, 2013 16:57 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)In reply to: The return of nftables by wahern
Parent article: The return of nftables
> Also, the BPF virtual machine is actually quit tiny, and the line between re-writing it and copy+pasting it is rather thin
One of the advantages of BPF is that Linux already has a working BPF JIT compiler for many architectures (x86, ARM, SPARC, POWER and S/390). This is a non-trivial amount of code.
Posted Aug 22, 2013 18:25 UTC (Thu)
by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
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The return of nftables
Could this work the other way around, consolidating on nftables as the backend for BPF processing in the kernel rather than maintaining two similar systems.