From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 16:40:22 -0500 > Right. But it is helpful to expose the supported functionality > to guest in some way, if nothing else then so that > guests can be moved between different hosts. > > Also, we need a way to report this kind of event to guest > so it's possible to figure out what went wrong. On the contrary, this is why it is of utmost importance that all XDP implementations support the full suite of XDP facilities from the very beginning. This is why we keep giving people a hard time when they add support only for some of the XDP return values and semantics. Users will get killed by this, and it makes XDP a poor technology to use because behavior is not consistent across device types. That's not acceptable and I'll push back on anything that continues this trend. If you can't HW offload it, kick it to software.
