gpderetta 3 days ago

Aside for onload being open source, not really. AF_XDP is the generalized, hardware agnostic, version of kernel bypass.

In addition to bypass onload also provides a full IP/TCP user space stack and non-intrusive support for existing binaries using the standard BSD socket interface (incidentally onload also supports XDP now).

io_uring is really for asynchronous communication with the kernel.

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a-dub 2 days ago

interesting, didn't know that the networking stack had ring buffer infrastructure as well. (i don't think this af_xdp stuff existed when i was in this world)

the fib trie is the core of the ip stack - i was using it as proxy for total ip stack bypass.