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Message-ID: <fa929729-6122-195f-aa4b-e5d3fedb1887@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:44:53 +0200
From:   Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com>
To:     Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>,
        magnus.karlsson@...el.com, bjorn@...nel.org, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com, jonathan.lemon@...il.com,
        andrii@...nel.org, hawk@...nel.org, toke@...hat.com
Cc:     brouer@...hat.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Xdp <xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests, bpf: remove AF_XDP samples


On 30/06/2022 11.37, Magnus Karlsson wrote:
> From: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>
> 
> Remove the AF_XDP samples from samples/bpf as they are dependent on
> the AF_XDP support in libbpf. This support has now been removed in the
> 1.0 release, so these samples cannot be compiled anymore. Please start
> to use libxdp instead. It is backwards compatible with the AF_XDP
> support that was offered in libbpf. New samples can be found in the
> various xdp-project repositories connected to libxdp and by googling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>

Will you (or Maciej) be submitting these samples to XDP-tools[1] which 
is the current home for libxdp or maybe BPF-examples[2] ?

  [1] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools
  [2] https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples

I know Toke is ready to take over maintaining these, but we will 
appreciate someone to open a PR with this code...

> ---
>   MAINTAINERS                     |    2 -
>   samples/bpf/Makefile            |    9 -
>   samples/bpf/xdpsock.h           |   19 -
>   samples/bpf/xdpsock_ctrl_proc.c |  190 ---
>   samples/bpf/xdpsock_kern.c      |   24 -
>   samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c      | 2019 -------------------------------
>   samples/bpf/xsk_fwd.c           | 1085 -----------------

The code in samples/bpf/xsk_fwd.c is interesting, because it contains a
buffer memory manager, something I've seen people struggle with getting
right and performant (at the same time).

You can get my ACK if someone commits to port this to [1] or [2], or a
3rd place that have someone what will maintain this in the future.

--Jesper