netdev - Re: [PATCH v11 bpf-next 17/18] net: xdp: introduce bpf_xdp_adjust

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Message-ID: <YR0BYiQFvI8cmOJU@lore-desk>
Date:   Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:47:30 +0200
From:   Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@...hat.com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Cc:     Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, shayagr@...zon.com,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, dsahern@...nel.org, brouer@...hat.com,
        echaudro@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        alexander.duyck@...il.com, saeed@...nel.org,
        maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com, magnus.karlsson@...el.com,
        tirthendu.sarkar@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 bpf-next 17/18] net: xdp: introduce
 bpf_xdp_adjust_data helper

> Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org> writes:
> 
[...]
> > + *	Description
> > + *		For XDP frames split over multiple buffers, the
> > + *		*xdp_md*\ **->data** and*xdp_md *\ **->data_end** pointers
> > + *		will point to the start and end of the first fragment only.
> > + *		This helper can be used to access subsequent fragments by
> > + *		moving the data pointers. To use, an XDP program can call
> > + *		this helper with the byte offset of the packet payload that
> > + *		it wants to access; the helper will move *xdp_md*\ **->data**
> > + *		and *xdp_md *\ **->data_end** so they point to the requested
> > + *		payload offset and to the end of the fragment containing this
> > + *		byte offset, and return the byte offset of the start of the
> > + *		fragment.
> 
> This comment is wrong now :)

actually we are still returning the byte offset of the start of the fragment
(base_offset).

Lorenzo

> 
> -Toke
> 

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