[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 03:08:17AM +0000, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> recently linux gained "universal in-kernel virtual machine" which is called
>> eBPF or extended BPF. The name comes from "Berkeley Packet Filter", since
>> new instruction set is based on it.
>
> I'd prefer if the backend name matches that, e.g. eBPF and not BPF.

What had similar discussion in kernel and common agreement was to use
just BPF everywhere. In all macros, filenames, system call, etc.
It will be extremely confusing to users when they can do 'man bpf'
and #include <bpf.h>, but to select correct llvm backend they
would have to specify -march=ebpf...