[OOR-Devel] AF_XDP

[Albert López]

Thanks Dino to let us know about this other options too. We put to check 
all of them in our roadmap.

Best regards

Albert



On 26/04/18 18:38, Dino Farinacci wrote:
> Look at AF_PACKET as well.
>
> Also, to be complete, PF_RING has the same external dependencies as DPDK and VPP.
>
> Dino
>
>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 1:33 AM, Lori Jakab <lorand.jakab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi OOR developers,
>>
>> I just became aware of something called AF_XDP in the Linux kernel, which is a technology to allow faster zero-copy transfer of network packets to user space, with hooks to BPF for packet modification. See more information here:
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/750845/
>> https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/af_xdp/ (this link has slides and video recording of the FOSDEM talk)
>>
>>  From the OOR perspective, this could potentially be a solution to improve performance in a self-contained way, without relying on a kernel module (like in the early days of LISPmob), or external dependencies like DPDK or VPP.
>>
>> I'm not saying that this is a priority, just that it's something that we should be aware of.
>>
>> HTH,
>> -Lori
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