On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 at 20:33, 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]>
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