From fe8b5222e3df4ee92312ddb9f732f1fe8c5a7db3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:16:39 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add wishlist for NIC vendors Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann --- Documentation/VendorWishlist | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/VendorWishlist diff --git a/Documentation/VendorWishlist b/Documentation/VendorWishlist new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3bce282a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/VendorWishlist @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Wishlist for NIC vendors: +///////////////////////// + +- BPF filtering in hardware, aka BPF Offload Engine (BOE). A NIC's driver could + advertise to ethtool, that the Chip is able to filter packets directly in + hardware in the BPF language. So that a filter given by PF_PACKET could forward + the opcodes to the driver through a specified interface, and the driver pushes + this to a BOE-capable Chipset. This could save a lot of time, since unwanted + packets do not need to enter the Linux stack. -- 2.11.4.GIT