On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:27 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 00:11:35 +0300 > >> Just to make sure, is the AF_XDP ZC (Zero Copy) UAPI going to be >> merged for this window -- AFAIU from [1], it's still under >> examination/development/research for non Intel HWs, am I correct or >> this is going to get in now? > > All of the pending AF_XDP changes will be merged this merge window. > > I think Intel folks need to review things as fast as possible because > I pretty much refuse to revert the series or disable it in Kconfig at > this point. > > Thank you.
My understanding of things is that the current AF_XDP patches were going to be updated to have more of a model agnostic API such that they would work for either the "typewriter" mode or the descriptor ring based approach. The current plan was to have the zero copy patches be a follow-on after the vendor agnostic API bits in the descriptors and such had been sorted out. I believe you guys have the descriptor fixes already right? In my opinion the i40e code isn't mature enough yet to really go into anything other than maybe net-next in a couple weeks. We are going to need a while to get adequate testing in order to flush out all the bugs and performance regressions we are likely to see coming out of this change. - Alex
