Re: AF_XDP socket TX path interact with TC?

Konrad Zemek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.xdp-newbies
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On Monday, October 25th, 2021 at 8:26 PM, Jun Hu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 3:48 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Jun Hu [email protected] writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to put a timestamp in the egress packets, and I want to use
> > >
> > > AF_XDP socket for both sending and receiving packets; since a XDP
> > >
> > > kernel program only work in ingress direction, I wonder if I could use
> > >
> > > a tc kernel program to change a packet sent out via an AF_XDP socket?
> > >
> > > I searched around, but couldn't find any direct answer...
> >
> > Nope, AF_XDP bypasses the stack completely, so TC won't see the packet
> >
> > on egress...
> >
> > -Toke
>
> Ok, thanks for the clarification, I guess I have to wait for the XDP
>
> egress support ...

You can also directly modify the packet that you send out through an AF_XDP socket, before putting it on the outgoing queue. Is there anything specific that you would want to do in an egress-attached BPF program that you would not be able to do in the userspace program that manages your AF_XDP socket?

Konrad
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