Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] tools: add xdp-forwarder

Alyssa Ross
2025-09-23T13:58:40Z

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Yureka Lilian <yureka@cyberchaos.dev> writes:

> The xdp-forwarder's purpose is implementing the functionality needed
> within the net-vm (a VM running the Linux drivers for any physical
> interfaces on the spectrum system).
>
> In the future, the net-vm will load the included XDP programs on the
> passed-through physical interfaces as well as the downstream virtio
> interface going into the router (recognized by its special MAC address).
>
> The net-vm needs to multiplex between the physical interfaces, as there
> might be several interfaces in the same IOMMU-group.
>
> For this, the XDP program loaded on the physical interfaces
> (`prog_physical.o`) applies a VLAN tag corresponding to the interface id
> and redirects the packets to the router interface (identified by the
> `router_iface` bpf map). In the other direction the XDP program loaded on
> the router interface (`prog_router.o`) removes one layer of VLAN tagging
> and redirects the packets to the interface read from the VLAN tag.
>
> The helper program `set_router_iface` is used to update the `router_iface`
> bpf map to point to the interface passed as argument to the program.
>
> Co-authored-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian <yureka@cyberchaos.dev>

Demi: are you able to give a Signed-off-by for your part in this?

(I'm referring to the kernel documentation[1] for best practices with
this stuff, and it says to get Signed-off-by from every author for a
patch. No need to worry about it being pedantic on what order the tags
come in etc. though, or the fact that the kernel uses Co-developed-by
rather than Co-authored-by like everybody else.)

[1]: https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by

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