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Commit f600b690 authored by John Fastabend's avatar John Fastabend Committed by David S. Miller
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virtio_net: Add XDP support



This adds XDP support to virtio_net. Some requirements must be
met for XDP to be enabled depending on the mode. First it will
only be supported with LRO disabled so that data is not pushed
across multiple buffers. Second the MTU must be less than a page
size to avoid having to handle XDP across multiple pages.

If mergeable receive is enabled this patch only supports the case
where header and data are in the same buf which we can check when
a packet is received by looking at num_buf. If the num_buf is
greater than 1 and a XDP program is loaded the packet is dropped
and a warning is thrown. When any_header_sg is set this does not
happen and both header and data is put in a single buffer as expected
so we check this when XDP programs are loaded.  Subsequent patches
will process the packet in a degraded mode to ensure connectivity
and correctness is not lost even if backend pushes packets into
multiple buffers.

If big packets mode is enabled and MTU/LRO conditions above are
met then XDP is allowed.

This patch was tested with qemu with vhost=on and vhost=off where
mergeable and big_packet modes were forced via hard coding feature
negotiation. Multiple buffers per packet was forced via a small
test patch to vhost.c in the vhost=on qemu mode.

Suggested-by: default avatarShrijeet Mukherjee <shrijeet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f23bc46c
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