From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, davem@davemloft.net,
hawk@kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, andrii@kernel.org,
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kpsingh@kernel.org, lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>,
gal@nvidia.com, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
tariqt@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] samples/bpf: fixup some tools to be able to support xdp multibuffer
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 17:17:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230104171733.5fa4638c@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkne32ly.fsf@toke.dk>
On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 13:28:57 +0100 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> >> Interesting! :) My mental model was closer to GRO by frags
> >> so the linear part would have no data, just headers.
> >
> > That is assumption as well.
>
> Right, okay, so how many headers? Only Ethernet, or all the way up to
> L4 (TCP/UDP)?
If we're speaking about guarantees or hard requirements - I think that
we can only require / guarantee the Ethernet header. Requiring more
will be defeated by tunnels (i.e. adjust_head() + redirect to a veth).
> I do seem to recall a discussion around the header/data split for TCP
> specifically, but I think I mentally put that down as "something people
> may way to do at some point in the future", which is why it hasn't made
> it into my own mental model (yet?) :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-05 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-21 17:54 [PATCH net-next v2] samples/bpf: fixup some tools to be able to support xdp multibuffer Andy Gospodarek
2022-06-22 2:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2023-01-03 12:55 ` Tariq Toukan
2023-01-03 15:19 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-04 1:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-04 8:44 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-04 12:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-05 1:17 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-01-05 7:20 ` Tariq Toukan
2023-01-05 15:43 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-05 16:57 ` Andy Gospodarek
2023-01-05 18:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-06 13:56 ` Andy Gospodarek
2023-01-08 12:33 ` Tariq Toukan
[not found] ` <8369e348-a8ec-cb10-f91f-4277e5041a27@nvidia.com>
2023-01-08 12:42 ` Tariq Toukan
2023-01-09 13:50 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-05 22:07 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-06 17:54 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2023-01-05 16:22 ` Andy Gospodarek
2023-01-10 20:59 ` Maxim Mikityanskiy
2023-01-13 21:07 ` Tariq Toukan
2023-01-25 12:49 ` Tariq Toukan
2023-01-05 16:18 ` Andy Gospodarek
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