Re: [xdp-hints] Re: [PATCH bpf-next v8 00/17] xdp: hints via kfuncs

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 4:23 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<jbrouer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 24/01/2023 12.49, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> > Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:55:52 -0800
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:53 AM Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 1/19/23 2:15 PM, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> >>>>> Please see the first patch in the series for the overall
> >>>>> design and use-cases.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See the following email from Toke for the per-packet metadata overhead:
> >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221206024554.3826186-1-sdf@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m49d48ea08d525ec88360c7d14c4d34fb0e45e798
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Recent changes:
> >>>>> - Keep new functions in en/xdp.c, do 'extern mlx5_xdp_metadata_ops' (Tariq)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Remove mxbuf pointer and use xsk_buff_to_mxbuf (Tariq)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Clarify xdp_buff vs 'XDP frame' (Jesper)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Explicitly mention that AF_XDP RX descriptor lacks metadata size (Jesper)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Drop libbpf_flags/xdp_flags from selftests and use ifindex instead
> >>>>>     of ifname (due to recent xsk.h refactoring)
> >>>>
> >>>> Applied with the minor changes in the selftests discussed in patch 11 and 17.
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Awesome, thanks! I was gonna resend around Wed, but thank you for
> >>> taking care of that!
> >> Great stuff, congrats! :)
> >
> > Yeah! Thanks for carrying this forward, Stanislav! :)

Thank you all as well for the valuable feedback and reviews!

> +1000 -- great work everybody! :-)
>
> To Alexander (Cc Jesse and Tony), do you think someone from Intel could
> look at extending drivers:
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/ - chip i210
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/ - chip i225
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac - for CPU integrated LAN ports
>
> We have a customer that have been eager to get hardware RX-timestamping
> for their AF_XDP use-case (PoC code[1] use software timestamping via
> bpf_ktime_get_ns() today).  Getting driver support will qualify this
> hardware as part of their HW solution.
>
> --Jesper
> [1]
> https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/blob/master/AF_XDP-interaction/af_xdp_kern.c#L77
>




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