From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Jason@zx2c4.com
Cc: kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas@sockpuppet.org,
adhipati@tuta.io, dsahern@gmail.com, toke@redhat.com,
alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v4] net: xdp: account for layer 3 packets in generic skb handler
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:26:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200814.142656.1061722366614948972.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9rt-8Z1FJo9YSEqQHyEd1178cfizNa08BiakZYr+FR=Wg@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:04:56 +0200
> What? No. It comes up repeatedly because people want to reuse their
> XDP processing logic with layer 3 devices.
XDP is a layer 2 packet processing technology. It assumes an L2
ethernet and/or VLAN header is going to be there.
Putting a pretend ethernet header there doesn't really change that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-14 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-13 19:58 [PATCH net v4] net: xdp: account for layer 3 packets in generic skb handler Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-13 21:01 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-14 6:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-14 7:30 ` [PATCH net v5] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-14 20:55 ` David Miller
2020-08-14 20:57 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-15 7:41 ` [PATCH net v6] " Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-19 7:07 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-08-19 23:22 ` David Miller
2020-08-20 9:13 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-20 18:55 ` David Miller
2020-08-20 20:29 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-14 15:31 ` [PATCH net v4] " Jakub Kicinski
2020-08-14 21:04 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-14 21:26 ` David Miller [this message]
2020-08-15 7:54 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-08-14 21:14 ` David Miller
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