On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 15:37, Björn Töpel [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 14:19, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [off-list ref] wrote:
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Björn Töpel [off-list ref] writes:
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bpf_redirect_map() returns a 32-bit signed int, so the upper 32-bit
will need to be cleared. Having an explicit AND is one instruction
less than two shifts. So, it's an optimization (every instruction is
sacred).
OIC. Well, a comment explaining that might be nice (since you're doing
per-instruction comments anyway)? :)
Sure, I can do a v3 with a comment, unless someone has a better idea
avoiding both shifts and AND.
Thanks for taking a look!
Now wait, there are the JMP32 instructions that Jiong added. So,
shifts/AND can be avoided. Now, regarding backward compat... JMP32 is
pretty new. I need to think a bit how to approach this. I mean, I'd
like to be able to use new BPF instructions.
Björn
Björn
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-Toke