netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 12/18] xdp: add generic xdp_build_skb_from

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Message-ID: <87frob9joz.fsf@toke.dk>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:18:04 +0100
From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
 <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>, Alexei Starovoitov
 <ast@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, John Fastabend
 <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Maciej
 Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>, Stanislav Fomichev
 <sdf@...ichev.me>, Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
 nex.sw.ncis.osdt.itp.upstreaming@...el.com, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 12/18] xdp: add generic
 xdp_build_skb_from_buff()

Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> writes:

> The code which builds an skb from an &xdp_buff keeps multiplying itself
> around the drivers with almost no changes. Let's try to stop that by
> adding a generic function.
> There's __xdp_build_skb_from_frame() already, so just convert it to take
> &xdp_buff instead, while making the original one a wrapper.

This does not seem to be what the patch actually does? :)

-Toke