> On Sep 28, 2018, at 07:20, Jerome BENOIT <jbenoit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> Is there any work in OpenWRT targeted at integrating Linux forwarding >>> fastpath in the official build ? >>> There are out-of-tree patches and builds floating around and nowadays 1 >>> GB/s fiber internet access is very common is developed countries, and >>> the router is then becoming the bottleneck in many case. >> With my colleagues I have already started this effort and plan to >> share patches to OpenWrt as soon as the work is ready. The plan is to >> present this on OpenWrt summit in our talk "State of fast path >> networking in Linux" as well [1]. Part of this activity is my pull >> request for 4.19 inclusion [2]. If there are other activities around >> this space please reach out to speed up the process. > > Great. I do no have closely followed the Linux kernel development lately but > the need for the 4.19 version in OpenWRT for fastpath forwarding is because > the SFE code have been upstreamed is that version ? > Or because the latest SFE patches are against that version ? > > The only related work that I'm aware of is > https://github.com/gwlim/Fast-Path-LEDE-OpenWRT but I do not think the author > have tried to include it upstream. So in kernel 4.17 I believe landed flow offloading support. This accomplishes something similar to SFE while being a proper upstream solution. This is already implemented in OpenWrt.
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