netdev - Re: [PATCH v15 ] net/veth/XDP: Line-rate packet forwarding in kernel

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Date:   Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:45:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     john.fastabend@...il.com
Cc:     dsahern@...il.com, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, mislam4@...t.edu,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        agaceph@...il.com, xemul@...nvz.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 ] net/veth/XDP: Line-rate packet forwarding in
 kernel

From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 09:41:08 -0700

> On 04/03/2018 08:07 AM, David Ahern wrote:
>> 4. What about other stacked devices - bonds and bridges - will those
>> just work with the bpf helper? VRF is already handled of course. ;-)
> 
> So if we simply handle this like other stacked devices and call the
> lower devs xdp_xmit routine we should get reasonable behavior. For
> bonds and bridges I guess some generalization is needed though because
> everything at the moment is skb centric. I don't think its necessary
> in the first series though. It can be added later.

I wonder if we need some feature bit gating this passthrough, just
like the various ->vlan_features and ->hw_enc_features.