Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 1/3] xsk: Support UMEM chunk_size > PAGE_SIZE

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Kal Cutter Conley <kal.conley@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> In addition, presumably when using this mode, the other XDP actions
>> (XDP_PASS, XDP_REDIRECT to other targets) would stop working unless we
>> add special handling for that in the kernel? We'll definitely need to
>> handle that somehow...
>
> I am not familiar with all the details here. Do you know a reason why
> these cases would stop working / why special handling would be needed?
> For example, if I have a UMEM that uses hugepages and XDP_PASS is
> returned, then the data is just copied into an SKB right? SKBs can
> also be created directly from hugepages AFAIK. So I don't understand
> what the issue would be. Can someone explain this concern?

Well, I was asking :) It may well be that the SKB path just works; did
you test this? Pretty sure XDP_REDIRECT to another device won't, though?

-Toke




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