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

From: Kal Cutter Conley
Date: Fri Apr 14 2023 - 12:32:07 EST


> 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?