From: "Björn Töpel" <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
To: "Junsong Zhao (junszhao)" <junszhao@cisco.com>,
"magnus.karlsson@intel.com" <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: questions about AF_PACKET V4 and AF_XDP
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 09:47:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95aaafdc-ef8a-c4b9-6104-a1a753c81820@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77a8123886714daeb9d2518dce45da1e@XCH-ALN-014.cisco.com>
On 2019-06-05 19:56, Junsong Zhao (junszhao) wrote:
> Hi Magnus and Bjorn,
>
> I saw your articles and presentation about AF_PACKET V4. It is exciting
> to know that the kernel socket can have 40G throughput.
>
> But it seems the code is not in the 4.19 or 5.1 kernel. Instead there is
> a new feature AF_XDP in 4.19 kernel and it is kind of similar to
> AF_PACKET V4.
>
> Can you clarify if AF_XDP is the successor of AF_PACKET V4? Apart from
> i40e driver, is there any other driver that supports the feature?
>
AF_PACKET v4 never made it to mainland, instead AF_XDP took that place.
Drivers with zero-copy support are i40e, ixgbe, and soon mlx5 and ice.
There's an LWN article on AF_XDP here: https://lwn.net/Articles/750845/
Thanks,
Björn
> Here is the link to the article:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/737947/
>
> Regards,
>
> Junsong Zhao
>
> Tech Lead
>
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>
> junszhao@cisco.com
>
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