[ovs-discuss] Zero-Copy in the upcall
Justin Pettit
jpettit at ovn.org
Thu Aug 1 03:57:41 UTC 2019
> On Jul 31, 2019, at 1:14 PM, Adel Belkhiri <adel.belkhiri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> In the recent versions of Openvswitch, whenever a packet is received and doesn't match any flow within the datapath, it is zero-copied to the userspace.
>
> Does that mean the whole packet is zero-copied or only the data part of its skb structure ?
Working from memory, I'm fairly certain it's the entire packet, since there's no queuing mechanism in the kernel datapath.
--Justin
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