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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:15:37 +0200 From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com> To: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@...hat.com> Cc: "Karlsson, Magnus" <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>, Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Fijalkowski, Maciej" <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Xdp <xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests, bpf: remove AF_XDP samples Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com> writes: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 3:44 PM Jesper Dangaard Brouer > <jbrouer@...hat.com> wrote: >> >> >> 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). > > I can push xsk_fwd to BPF-examples. Though I do think that xdpsock has > become way too big to serve as a sample. It slowly turned into a catch > all demonstrating every single feature of AF_XDP. We need a minimal > example and then likely other samples for other features that should > be demoed. So I suggest that xdpsock dies here and we start over with > something minimal and use xsk_fwd for the forwarding and mempool > example. > > Toke, I think you told me at Recipes in Paris that someone from RedHat > was working on an example. Did I remember correctly? I think I was probably referring to https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools/pull/158 ? Which has sadly stalled :( -Toke
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