[OOR-Devel] AF_XDP

[Dino Farinacci]

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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