On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:31:50 +0100 Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> Discussed alternatives were: > * Tun/Tap > This won't be as fast as KNI and performance is an issue. That is a myth. Both require the some number of copies. TUN/TAP copies is a syscall and KNI copies is a kthread. Actually, the KNI method is worse because it has kernel thread always running chewing a CPU. I.e it is pure poll mode.