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+++ b/Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst
@@ -153,10 +153,12 @@ an example, if the UMEM is 64k and each chunk is 4k, then the UMEM has
Frames passed to the kernel are used for the ingress path (RX rings).
-The user application produces UMEM addrs to this ring. Note that the
-kernel will mask the incoming addr. E.g. for a chunk size of 2k, the
-log2(2048) LSB of the addr will be masked off, meaning that 2048, 2050
-and 3000 refers to the same chunk.
+The user application produces UMEM addrs to this ring. Note that, if
+running the application with aligned chunk mode, the kernel will mask
+the incoming addr. E.g. for a chunk size of 2k, the log2(2048) LSB of
+the addr will be masked off, meaning that 2048, 2050 and 3000 refers
+to the same chunk. If the user application is run in the unaligned
+chunks mode, then the incoming addr will be left untouched.
UMEM Completion Ring
@@ -220,7 +222,21 @@ Usage
In order to use AF_XDP sockets there are two parts needed. The
user-space application and the XDP program. For a complete setup and
usage example, please refer to the sample application. The user-space
-side is xdpsock_user.c and the XDP side xdpsock_kern.c.
+side is xdpsock_user.c and the XDP side is part of libbpf.
+
+The XDP code sample included in tools/lib/bpf/xsk.c is the following::
+
+ SEC("xdp_sock") int xdp_sock_prog(struct xdp_md *ctx)
+ {
+ int index = ctx->rx_queue_index;
+
+ // A set entry here means that the correspnding queue_id
+ // has an active AF_XDP socket bound to it.
+ if (bpf_map_lookup_elem(&xsks_map, &index))
+ return bpf_redirect_map(&xsks_map, index, 0);
+
+ return XDP_PASS;
+ }
Naive ring dequeue and enqueue could look like this::