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>"I'd expect more future uses of xdp over dpdk." Can say why that is? I haven't really kept up with DPDK but I know there was lots of interest in it a few year
by bogomipz 6y ago
>"I'd expect more future uses of xdp over dpdk."
Can say why that is? I haven't really kept up with DPDK but I know there was lots of interest in it a few years back. What has changed?
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- wtallis 6y agoI haven't been watching the networking side too closely, but I expect the same thing to play out for storage with io_uring vs SPDK. When the in-kernel solution is almost as fast, has much broader availability and compatibility, and imposes fewer constraints on hardware purchasing decisions and system administration, the userspace offload solution gets consigned to a fairly small niche.
- brendangregg 6y agoRight; there's a better presentation I can't find right now, but here's one from Intel showing how XDP was catching up in 2018 http://vger.kernel.org/lpc_net2018_talks/lpc18_pres_af_xdp_perf-v3.pdf http://vger.kernel.org/lpc_net2018_talks/lpc18_pres_af_xdp_p...