netdev - Re: [PATCH vhost 00/22] virtio-net: support AF

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Message-ID: <20231011100057.535f3834@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:00:57 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang
 <jasowang@...hat.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann
 <daniel@...earbox.net>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>, John
 Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH vhost 00/22] virtio-net: support AF_XDP zero copy

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:27:06 +0800 Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> ## AF_XDP
> 
> XDP socket(AF_XDP) is an excellent bypass kernel network framework. The zero
> copy feature of xsk (XDP socket) needs to be supported by the driver. The
> performance of zero copy is very good. mlx5 and intel ixgbe already support
> this feature, This patch set allows virtio-net to support xsk's zerocopy xmit
> feature.

You're moving the driver and adding a major feature.
This really needs to go via net or bpf.
If you have dependencies in other trees please wait for
after the merge window.