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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
	Tianyi Gao <tianyi@cloudflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, toke@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	kernel-team@cloudflare.com, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com, sdf@fomichev.me,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, bochaolucky@gmail.com,
	toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] veth: schedule the peer's NAPI after XDP_TX when only GRO is enabled
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:58:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <746ba331-0a9f-46ed-8faf-d432bec5c8c6@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <atSMqdB52V494aYn@lore-desk>



On 10/18/26 11:08, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
>> veth_xdp_xmit() queues XDP_TX frames on the peer's ring if the peer has
>> NAPI. A peer with GRO enabled and no XDP program also has NAPI.
>>
>> veth_xdp_flush() then schedules the peer's NAPI, but only if the peer's
>> xdp_prog is set, so for such a peer the frames are never processed.
>> Nothing else schedules that NAPI by default.
>>
>> Once the ring is full, every XDP_TX frame is dropped, and so are the
>> skbs that veth_xmit() queues on the same ring.
>>
>> Commit 0e672f306a28 ("veth: check for NAPI instead of xdp_prog before
>> xmit of XDP frame") changed the check in veth_xdp_xmit() but not the one
>> in veth_xdp_flush(). Make veth_xdp_flush() check the napi pointer
>> instead of xdp_prog, as veth_xdp_xmit() does.
>>
>> Fixes: 0e672f306a28 ("veth: check for NAPI instead of xdp_prog before xmit of XDP frame")
>> Signed-off-by: Tianyi Gao <tianyi@cloudflare.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>


LGTM

Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>


>> ---
>>   drivers/net/veth.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/veth.c b/drivers/net/veth.c
>> index 643b97dc5245..9405ffac598a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/veth.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/veth.c
>> @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static void veth_xdp_flush(struct veth_rq *rq, struct veth_xdp_tx_bq *bq)
>>   	rcv_priv = netdev_priv(rcv);
>>   	rcv_rq = &rcv_priv->rq[veth_select_rxq(rcv)];
>>   	/* xdp_ring is initialized on receive side? */
>> -	if (unlikely(!rcu_access_pointer(rcv_rq->xdp_prog)))
>> +	if (unlikely(!rcu_access_pointer(rcv_rq->napi)))
>>   		goto out;
>>   
>>   	__veth_xdp_flush(rcv_rq);
>> -- 
>> 2.55.0
>>


  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-16 21:42 [PATCH net 0/2] veth: schedule the peer's NAPI after XDP_TX when only GRO is enabled Tianyi Gao
2026-10-16 21:42 ` [PATCH net 1/2] " Tianyi Gao
2026-10-17 23:32   ` Mohsin Bashir
2026-10-18  9:08   ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-10-19  9:58     ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]
2026-10-16 21:42 ` [PATCH net 2/2] selftests: net: veth: test XDP_TX to a peer with GRO enabled Tianyi Gao

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