[ovs-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/3] AF_XDP support for OVS

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 07:26:52AM -0700, William Tu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 1:17 PM Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > This is really cool.  BPF and XDP and AF_XDP are all fascinating
> > technology and I'd like to see OVS able to take advantage of them.
> >
> > What do you see as the next step for this patch series?  I see that it's
> > an RFC and that it depends on a fairly long patch series.  Is the next
> > step to rebase the series and start to get parts of it into the OVS
> > tree?  Or is it to refine this AF_XDP patch series first?  Or do you
> > have some other approach in mind?
> 
> Hi Ben,
> There are still lots to do, my plan is below:
> v2: remove the extra copy by adding a buffer management.
>       provide some preliminary performance number
> v3: add more test cases to "make check-afxdp" and try the
>       zero copy mode on supported NIC
> v4: remove the long dependency on eBPF datapath patch

OK.  Your plan makes a lot of sense.  Thanks.  I'll look forward to the
next versions.