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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Christian Deacon <gamemann@gflclan.com>, xdp-newbies@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sending A Separate Packet Out The TX Path In XDP
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:14:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnsn8oxr.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d153ed73-3a46-cbf9-c9b7-947926083027@gflclan.com>

Christian Deacon <gamemann@gflclan.com> writes:

> Hey everyone,
>
>
> I had a quick question. Is it possible to send a packet separate from 
> the original out of the TX path within an XDP program? I would imagine 
> this isn't possible, but I just wanted to make sure.

Not from within XDP, no...

> If this isn't possible within the XDP program itself, is it possible to 
> do this with AF_XDP sockets or can AF_XDP sockets only handle packets 
> redirected via the fast-path XDP creates? I wasn't sure if I'd need to 
> make another Linux socket inside of the AF_XDP program in this case to 
> send a separate packet out.

...but AF_XDP sockets can send whatever you want :)

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27 19:57 Sending A Separate Packet Out The TX Path In XDP Christian Deacon
2021-04-27 20:14 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2021-04-28 16:28   ` Christian Deacon
2021-04-29  9:27     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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