On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 01:23:34PM -0700, William Tu wrote: > The patch introduces experimental AF_XDP support for OVS netdev. > AF_XDP, the Address Family of the eXpress Data Path, is a new Linux socket > type built upon the eBPF and XDP technology. It is aims to have comparable > performance to DPDK but cooperate better with existing kernel's networking > stack. An AF_XDP socket receives and sends packets from an eBPF/XDP program > attached to the netdev, by-passing a couple of Linux kernel's subsystems > As a result, AF_XDP socket shows much better performance than AF_PACKET > For more details about AF_XDP, please see linux kernel's > Documentation/networking/af_xdp.rst. Note that by default, this feature is > not compiled in. > > Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012...@gmail.com>
I built this (without enabling it) and ran the unit tests and everything passed, and on a quick skim it looks fine, so I am happy with it from a "no regressions" point of view. Ilya's been doing the real reviews, of course, so I'll leave it to him to apply. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
