I don’t see in anyway how it would defeat the purpose especially considering it certainly does use XDP [1] for everything it doesn’t have a driver for and you c

I don’t see in anyway how it would defeat the purpose especially considering it certainly does use XDP [1] for everything it doesn’t have a driver for and you can opt for it instead of an existing driver if you actually want to have something performant. Also, "no" about what? DPDK doesn’t just expose the PCIE device to user land. There is what you call the yak shaving with memory and then it also has a full driver from the NIC so you can actually you know do networking. [1] https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/af_xdp.html https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/af_xdp.html