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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: magnus.karlsson@intei.com, bjorn.topel@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/7] PMD driver for AF_XDP
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:52:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4758d934-c338-e4a6-17fa-6ed90bb141ff@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180227093306.23854-1-qi.z.zhang@intel.com>



On 2018年02月27日 17:32, Qi Zhang wrote:
> The RFC patches add a new PMD driver for AF_XDP which is a proposed
> faster version of AF_PACKET interface in Linux, see below link for
> detail AF_XDP introduction:
> https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/af_xdp/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/745934/
>
> This patchset is base on v18.02.
> It also require a linux kernel that have below AF_XDP RFC patches be
> applied.
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867961/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867960/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867938/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867939/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867940/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867941/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867942/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867943/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867944/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867945/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867946/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867947/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867948/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867949/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867950/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867951/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867952/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867953/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867954/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867955/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867956/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867957/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867958/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/867959/
>
> There is no clean upstream target yet since kernel patch is still in
> RFC stage, The purpose of the patchset is just for anyone that want to
> eveluate af_xdp with DPDK application and get feedback for further
> improvement.
>
> To try with the new PMD
> 1. compile and install the kernel with above patches applied.
> 2. configure $LINUX_HEADER_DIR (dir of "make headers_install")
>     and $TOOLS_DIR (dir at <kernel_src>/tools) at driver/net/af_xdp/Makefile
>     before compile DPDK.
> 3. make sure libelf and libbpf is installed.
>
> BTW, performance test shows our PMD can reach 94%~98% of the orignal benchmark
> when share memory is enabled.

Hi:

Looks like zerocopy is not used in this series. Any plan to support 
that? If not, what's the advantage compared to vhost-net + tap + 
XDP_REDIRECT?

Have you measured l2fwd performance in this case? I believe the number 
you refer here is rxdrop (XDP_DRV) which is 11.6Mpps.

Thanks

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-01  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-27  9:32 Qi Zhang
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 1/7] net/af_xdp: new PMD driver Qi Zhang
2018-02-28 23:40   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-28 23:42   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-01  1:51     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-02-28 23:42   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-28 23:45   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-01  1:59     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 2/7] lib/mbuf: enable parse flags when create mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 3/7] lib/mempool: allow page size aligned mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/7] net/af_xdp: use mbuf mempool for buffer management Qi Zhang
2018-03-01  2:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 5/7] net/af_xdp: enable share mempool Qi Zhang
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 6/7] net/af_xdp: load BPF file Qi Zhang
2018-03-01  2:10   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27  9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 7/7] app/testpmd: enable parameter for mempool flags Qi Zhang
2018-03-01  2:52 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2018-03-01  4:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/7] PMD driver for AF_XDP Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01  4:20     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01  7:46       ` Jason Wang
2018-03-01 12:56         ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-03-01 13:18           ` Jason Wang
2018-03-02  4:05             ` Zhang, Qi Z
2018-02-27  9:35 Qi Zhang

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