On 12/15/25 9:29 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 at 19:51, Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Kernels with AF_XDP support below v5.4 are not supported and are not
>> used in any major distributions.  Using kernels that old with AF_XDP
>> that was rapidly changing at the time is also not a good idea in
>> general.  Let's drop support for them.  This allows to have the
>> XDP_USE_NEED_WAKEUP flag to be always on, so we can simplify the code
>> and stop guessing how many packets kernel can send in one go.
>>
>> The next milestone may be to require libxdp 1.2+ and kernel 5.18+, so
>> we can simplify acinclude.m4 and avoid checking for bpf_xdp_detach and
>> bpf_xdp_query_id API.  But it feels a little bit too early for that,
>> as it excludes Ubuntu 22.04, even if it's probably not a great idea
>> to run AF_XDP there either.  The gains from moving the pole to 5.18
>> are just a couple of checks in the code, so not doing that for now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> 
> On the principle, it lgtm.
> However, use_need_wakeup / requested_need_wakeup were left behind in
> lib/netdev-linux-private.h.

Missed those somehow.  Thanks!  I'll send a v2.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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