Re: AF_XDP and dma

Magnus Karlsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.xdp-newbies
Message-ID <CAJ8uoz0O2yXoA09ZNO5iviFOv-ipgaf0ZhYD=ZUb8QG7VP5Edg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:01 PM ratheesh kannoth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 3:13 PM Magnus Karlsson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The short answer is that you do not have to worry about that at all in
> > user space.
> i am interested in kernel space, where i have to configure these
> memory address (physical) in HW
>
> >>>DMA is taken care of by the kernel.
> Agreed. For AF_XDP in driver mode (for zero copy mode), I need to
> configure the DMA address.

Only if you are writing your own kernel driver for a NIC. Are you doing that?

> > /Magnus
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