Sorry - didnt read every detail of this thread so i may
be missing something.
On 2019-10-22 12:54 p.m., John Fastabend wrote:
Toshiaki Makita wrote:
On 2019/10/19 0:22, John Fastabend wrote:
Toshiaki Makita wrote:
This is a PoC for an idea to offload flow, i.e. TC flower and nftables,
to XD
John Fastabend writes:
> I think for sysadmins in general (not OVS) use case I would work
> with Jesper and Toke. They seem to be working on this specific
> problem.
We're definitely thinking about how we can make "XDP magically speeds up
my network stack" a reality, if that's what you mean. Not
Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> On 2019/10/19 0:22, John Fastabend wrote:
> > Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> >> This is a PoC for an idea to offload flow, i.e. TC flower and nftables,
> >> to XDP.
> >>
> >
> > I've only read the cover letter so far but...
>
> Thank you for reading this long cover letter.
>
>
On 2019/10/21 20:23, Björn Töpel wrote:
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 00:31, Toshiaki Makita
wrote:
[...]
* About OVS AF_XDP netdev
Recently OVS has added AF_XDP netdev type support. This also makes use
of XDP, but in some ways different from this patch set.
- AF_XDP work originally started in o
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 00:31, Toshiaki Makita
wrote:
>
[...]
>
> * About OVS AF_XDP netdev
>
> Recently OVS has added AF_XDP netdev type support. This also makes use
> of XDP, but in some ways different from this patch set.
>
> - AF_XDP work originally started in order to bring BPF's flexibility t
On 2019/10/19 0:22, John Fastabend wrote:
Toshiaki Makita wrote:
This is a PoC for an idea to offload flow, i.e. TC flower and nftables,
to XDP.
I've only read the cover letter so far but...
Thank you for reading this long cover letter.
* Motivation
The purpose is to speed up flow base
Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> This is a PoC for an idea to offload flow, i.e. TC flower and nftables,
> to XDP.
>
I've only read the cover letter so far but...
> * Motivation
>
> The purpose is to speed up flow based network features like TC flower and
> nftables by making use of XDP.
>
> I chose f
This is a PoC for an idea to offload flow, i.e. TC flower and nftables,
to XDP.
* Motivation
The purpose is to speed up flow based network features like TC flower and
nftables by making use of XDP.
I chose flow feature because my current interest is in OVS. OVS uses TC
flower to offload flow tab
