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Message-ID: <Ztq6KAWXwjBcGci0@lore-desk>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:15:36 +0200
From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/9] bpf: cpumap: enable GRO for XDP_PASS frames

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 19:01:42 +0200 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > In particular, the cpumap kthread pinned on cpu 'n' can schedule the
> > backlog NAPI associated to cpu 'n'. However according to my understanding
> > it seems the backlog NAPI APIs (in process_backlog()) do not support GRO,
> > right? Am I missing something?
> 
> I meant to use the struct directly, not to schedule it. All you need
> is GRO - feed it packets, flush it. 

ack, thx for pointing this out.

> But maybe you can avoid the netdev allocation and patch 3 in other ways.
> Using backlog NAPI was just the first thing that came to mind.

ack, I will look into it.

Regards,
Lorenzo

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