On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:18:12 +0200 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote: > IIUC the 'set' proposal (please correct me if I am wrong), the eBPF program > running on the NIC that is receiving the packet from the wire is supposed > to set (or update) the hw metadata info (e.g. RX HASH or RX checksum) in > the RX DMA descriptor associated to the packet to be successively consumed. > Am I right? I was thinking of doing the SET on the veth side. Basically the metadata has to be understood by the stack only at the xdp->skb transition point. So we can delay the SET until that moment, carrying the information in program-specific format.
