On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:03:33AM -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 <[email protected]>
How heavy is the x86(_64)-only dependency? It seems undesirable. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
