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Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:05:07 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
To:     Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/8] drivers: net: turn on XDP features

> On 25.01.23 01:33, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > From: Marek Majtyka <alardam@...il.com>
> > 
> > A summary of the flags being set for various drivers is given below.
> > Note that XDP_F_REDIRECT_TARGET and XDP_F_FRAG_TARGET are features
> > that can be turned off and on at runtime. This means that these flags
> > may be set and unset under RTNL lock protection by the driver. Hence,
> > READ_ONCE must be used by code loading the flag value.
> > 
> > Also, these flags are not used for synchronization against the availability
> > of XDP resources on a device. It is merely a hint, and hence the read
> > may race with the actual teardown of XDP resources on the device. This
> > may change in the future, e.g. operations taking a reference on the XDP
> > resources of the driver, and in turn inhibiting turning off this flag.
> > However, for now, it can only be used as a hint to check whether device
> > supports becoming a redirection target.
> > 
> > Turn 'hw-offload' feature flag on for:
> >   - netronome (nfp)
> >   - netdevsim.
> > 
> > Turn 'native' and 'zerocopy' features flags on for:
> >   - intel (i40e, ice, ixgbe, igc)
> >   - mellanox (mlx5).
> >   - stmmac
> > 
> > Turn 'native' features flags on for:
> >   - amazon (ena)
> >   - broadcom (bnxt)
> >   - freescale (dpaa, dpaa2, enetc)
> >   - funeth
> >   - intel (igb)
> >   - marvell (mvneta, mvpp2, octeontx2)
> >   - mellanox (mlx4)
> >   - qlogic (qede)
> >   - sfc
> >   - socionext (netsec)
> >   - ti (cpsw)
> >   - tap
> >   - veth
> >   - xen
> >   - virtio_net.
> > 
> > Turn 'basic' (tx, pass, aborted and drop) features flags on for:
> >   - netronome (nfp)
> >   - cavium (thunder)
> >   - hyperv.
> > 
> > Turn 'redirect_target' feature flag on for:
> >   - amanzon (ena)
> >   - broadcom (bnxt)
> >   - freescale (dpaa, dpaa2)
> >   - intel (i40e, ice, igb, ixgbe)
> >   - ti (cpsw)
> >   - marvell (mvneta, mvpp2)
> >   - sfc
> >   - socionext (netsec)
> >   - qlogic (qede)
> >   - mellanox (mlx5)
> >   - tap
> >   - veth
> >   - virtio_net
> >   - xen
> 
> XDP support for tsnep was merged to net-next last week. So this driver
> cannot get XDP feature support in bpf-next as it is not there currently.
> Should I add these flags with a fix afterwards? Or would net-next be the
> better target for this patch series?

bpf-next has been rebased on top of net-next so we can add tsnep support to the
series. Do you think the patch below is fine?

Regards,
Lorenzo

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/engleder/tsnep_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/engleder/tsnep_main.c
index c3cf427a9409..6982aaa928b5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/engleder/tsnep_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/engleder/tsnep_main.c
@@ -1926,6 +1926,10 @@ static int tsnep_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	netdev->features = NETIF_F_SG;
 	netdev->hw_features = netdev->features | NETIF_F_LOOPBACK;
 
+	netdev->xdp_features = NETDEV_XDP_ACT_BASIC | NETDEV_XDP_ACT_REDIRECT |
+			       NETDEV_XDP_ACT_NDO_XMIT |
+			       NETDEV_XDP_ACT_NDO_XMIT_SG;
+
 	/* carrier off reporting is important to ethtool even BEFORE open */
 	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 
> 
> Gerhard

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