From: "Tahhan, Maryam" <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
To: "Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/af_xdp: custom XDP program loading
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:40:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR11MB374312B68ABE8A4B2A9B9298F0270@MN2PR11MB3743.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200828111812.31986-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loftus, Ciara <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday 28 August 2020 12:18
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Loftus, Ciara <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/af_xdp: custom XDP program loading
>
> The new 'xdp_prog=<string>' vdev arg allows the user to specify the path to
> a custom XDP program to be set on the device, instead of the default libbpf
> one. The program must have an XSK_MAP of name 'xsks_map' which will
> allow for the redirection of some packets to userspace and thus the PMD,
> using some criteria defined in the program.
> Note: a netdev may only load one program.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> ---
[MT] Stupid question :), AF_XDP is specifically related to loading an XDP program that allows you to redirect packets to an XSK...
why would you want to allow a custom XDP program to be loaded?
Other than that the code itself looked GTM
<snip>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-28 11:18 Ciara Loftus
2020-09-10 11:40 ` Tahhan, Maryam [this message]
2020-09-14 13:07 ` Loftus, Ciara
2020-09-18 2:54 ` Hu, Xuekun
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