On Fri, 11 May 2018 20:12:12 +0200 Jesper Dangaard Brouer
wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index 03ed492c4e14..debdb6286170 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -1185,9 +1185,13 @@ struct dev_ifalias {
> *
This patch change the API for ndo_xdp_xmit to support bulking
xdp_frames.
When kernel is compiled with CONFIG_RETPOLINE, XDP sees a huge slowdown.
Most of the slowdown is caused by DMA API indirect function calls, but
also the net_device->ndo_xdp_xmit() call.
Benchmarked patch with CONFIG_RETPOLI
