ACK+Cmnt: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][jammy:linux-azure, kinetic:linux-azure] Azure: MANA New Feature MANA XDP_Redirect Action

Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo at canonical.com
Thu Dec 1 17:55:04 UTC 2022


On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1998351
> 
> SRU Justification
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> XDP Redirection is not implemented in 5.15 Azure tuned kernels.
> 
> Microsoft has requested the addition of this feature:
> 
> commit 7a8938cd024d383c12bb1e08025db6ea3d551103 ("net: mana: Add support of XDP_REDIRECT action")
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> Microsoft tested with positive results.
> 
> [Where things could go wrong]
> 
> Network skb routing could go awry.
> 
> [Other info]
> 
> SF: #00340222

Clean cherry-pick, no upstream commit refers to fixing it, affects only a
single driver, Microsoft claims it was tested.

Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>

However, I don't see justification enough to apply it in cycle 2022.11.14.
Doing so would add risk on a cycle that is going to end very close to the
holidays.

Cascardo.



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