RE: [PATCH net v4 0/2] igb: only strip the Rx timestamp header from the first buffer of a frame

From: Tjerk Kusters

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 10:29:07 EST


> Not addressed here: the AF_XDP zero-copy Rx path.
> igb_clean_rx_irq_zc() has the same unguarded strip, and with 2 KiB
> UMEM chunks the hardware buffer is rounded down to 1 KiB, so frames
> span descriptors there. The igc counterpart is Maciej's buffer-size
> patch in [2]. I do not use AF_XDP and cannot test it, so I would
> prefer to leave that to someone who can.

> I assume review bots will give you a hard time if you don't address
> this within your series. Seems you have HW handy plus you do use LLM
> so I don't see why you couldn't ask it to address AF_XDP zc rx ?
>
> FWIW blessed user space tool has always been xdpsock:
> https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/tree/main/AF_XDP-example
>
> so you can ask llm to run this in rxdrop mode on receiver side and
> feed it with some traffic from peer side and then see that frames
> were not fragmented.


OK, fair point. I will look into it, and I will hold v5 until that is done and tested.

Thanks,
Tjerk