From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
To: Tianyi Gao <tianyi@cloudflare.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 01/15] xdp: reserve an skb core extension area after the xdp_frame
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:10:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cec4e2cc-9544-4146-9c49-92e5cff7d670@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115997f55d63b507ce54fbe9e22900b59016f3c3.1794281983.git.tianyi@cloudflare.com>
On 11/10/26 04:56, Tianyi Gao wrote:
> Reserve the skb core extension area in the headroom, right after the
> xdp_frame. An XDP program stores RX metadata there for the skb that is
> built later.
>
> The area begins with a header, struct xdp_skb_ext. It records the offset
> of each entry and the end of the last entry, in 4-byte units.
> bpf_xdp_adjust_head(), bpf_xdp_adjust_meta() and bpf_xdp_pull_data() use
> xdp_skb_ext_end() as their lower bound, so packet data and metadata
> cannot overwrite the entries.
>
> The XDP_FLAGS_HAS_SKB_EXT flag indicates that the header is valid. Most
> drivers reuse the xdp_buff between packets, so xdp_prepare_buff() clears
> it. With BPF_F_TEST_XDP_LIVE_FRAMES, reset_ctx() restores the flags
> before each run, and ctx_was_changed() compares them.
>
> Suggested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1d5521eb-84fc-4417-a3f5-6366694d160a@kernel.org/
> Signed-off-by: Tianyi Gao <tianyi@cloudflare.com>
> ---
> include/net/xdp.h | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/bpf/test_run.c | 4 +++-
> net/core/filter.c | 8 +++-----
> 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/net/xdp.h b/include/net/xdp.h
> index 07231adfb5f8..c888353425d4 100644
> --- a/include/net/xdp.h
> +++ b/include/net/xdp.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ enum xdp_buff_flags {
> * XDP program is not attached.
> */
> XDP_FLAGS_FRAGS_UNREADABLE = BIT(2),
> + XDP_FLAGS_HAS_SKB_EXT = BIT(3), /* skb core extension header
> + * is valid
> + */
This can be on 1-line (80 chars) of you change the comment to be:
/* skb core ext hdr valid */
> };
The rest looks good to me.
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 3:56 [PATCH bpf-next 00/15] xdp: add SKB core extensions to keep RX metadata until skb creation Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:56 ` [PATCH bpf-next 01/15] xdp: reserve an skb core extension area after the xdp_frame Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 13:10 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 02/15] net: dpaa, dpaa2: clear the skb core extension flag Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 03/15] xdp: add kfuncs to store RX hash and VLAN tag Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 14:13 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 04/15] xdp: add a kfunc to delete skb core extension entries Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 14:20 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 05/15] xdp: add a kfunc to store the RX checksum status Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 06/15] selftests/bpf: Test the skb core extension kfuncs Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 07/15] xdp: set skb RX metadata from the skb core extension area of xdp_frame Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 08/15] selftests/bpf: Test RX metadata on skbs built from xdp_frames Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 09/15] xdp: add the skb-ext-pass XDP feature and warn without it Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 10/15] xdp: warn on XDP_PASS with stored values when XDP runs on an skb Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 4:53 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 11/15] ice: set skb RX metadata from the skb core extension area of xdp_buff Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 12/15] selftests: drv-net: xdp: test the stored RX metadata on XDP_PASS Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 13/15] xdp: add kfuncs to load the stored RX metadata Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 14/15] selftests/bpf: Test the load kfuncs on cpumap and veth Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 3:57 ` [PATCH bpf-next 15/15] docs: net: document the skb core extension area Tianyi Gao
2026-11-10 4:53 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-11-10 13:01 ` [PATCH bpf-next 00/15] xdp: add SKB core extensions to keep RX metadata until skb creation Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2026-11-11 0:00 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-11-11 1:07 ` Tianyi Gao
2026-11-11 22:25 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-11-11 23:46 ` Tianyi Gao
2026-11-12 0:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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