[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/5] XDP offload using flow API provider

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Mar 13 17:48:04 UTC 2020


On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:29:06AM +0900, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
> This patch adds an XDP-based flow cache using the OVS netdev-offload
> flow API provider.  When a OVS device with XDP offload enabled,
> packets first are processed in the XDP flow cache (with parse, and
> table lookup implemented in eBPF) and if hits, the action processing
> are also done in the context of XDP, which has the minimum overhead.

Cool idea!


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