Re: Measuring/Debugging XDP Performance

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:02:23 -0600
Christian Deacon <gamemann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I am new to XDP + AF_XDP (along with C programming in general), but I am 
> very interested in it and I've been learning a lot recently. I own an 
> Anycast network and our POP servers are running custom software our 
> developer created that processes packets using XDP. This software 
> basically forwards specific traffic to another machine via an IPIP 
> tunnel.

Why are you using AF_XDP to implement a simple IPIP tunnel header?

You can easily implement it in BPF.
Example here:
 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/samples/bpf/xdp_tx_iptunnel_kern.c#L110-L112
-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer




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