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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ophir Munk <ophirmu@mellanox.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>,
	Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
	Jianbo Liu <jianbo.liu@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/tap: fix build issue with ARM32
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:19:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1814250.kpiQluYUny@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR0502MB3875A2B143A6D122471D431BD1FB0@AM0PR0502MB3875.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>

31/01/2018 11:38, Ophir Munk:
> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> > > arm architecture is missing is file drivers/tap/tap_bpf.h I suggest
> > > adding it, for example
> > >
> > > # elif defined(__arm__)
> > > #  define __NR_bpf 386
[...]
> > I am not sure, Is eBPF support available for arm32 support?
> 
> TAP eBPF has a graceful approach: it must successfully compile on all Linux
> distributions. If a specific kernel cannot support eBPF it will gracefully
> refuse the eBPF netlink message sent to it. 
> Thus, there is no harm even if there is no eBPF support available for arm32.
> 
> You should enable TAP compilation for cases where you only need TAP without eBPF.

Ophir, please send a patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31  5:14 Jerin Jacob
2018-01-31  9:59 ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-31 10:23   ` Jerin Jacob
2018-01-31 10:38     ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-31 11:19       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-01-31 11:30       ` Jerin Jacob
2018-01-31 11:57         ` Ophir Munk
2018-01-31 12:40           ` Jerin Jacob

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