From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 20:54:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE98D106567B for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:54:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690918FC15 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:54:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dudu@dudu.ro) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1126235fgb.35 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.22.11 with SMTP id z11mr2074465mui.106.1222030492882; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.229.14 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:54:52 +0300 From: "Vlad GALU" To: "Robert Watson" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: BPF plans for 7.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:54:54 -0000 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Vlad GALU wrote: > >> Will the zero-copy bpf(4) changes be merged to the stable branch before >> the release? > > Dear Vlad: > > Unfortunately, no. The code seems stable in 8-CURRENT, but I don't feel > it's had enough actual testing exposure to go into 7.x yet. Also, the > libpcap changes to support it have only just gone back into the tcpdump.org > distribution of libpcap, and there is non-trivial reworking of that code, so > we'd like to let that settle as well. We've had a number of queries so I > suspect we'll start maintaining a 7.x MFC candidate patch fairly soon (next > couple of months). > > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge > Thanks for your quick reply! I'll start experimenting with HEAD. -- ~/.signature: no such file or directory