Hello everyone, My goal is to build a simple program that schedules sending an heartbeat packet (sort of like an ICMP reply-response) to a list of IP addresses (a few million of them) on regular intervals, and update alive/dead software state for each address. I have a pcap implementation but performance is subpar. I understand that for the rx part, a simple xdp program that intercepts the heartbeat reply and writes to some bpf map will be sufficient. However, from what I read, in order to send packets in the same path, I will need to use AF_XDP sockets and write a user-space application that will have to deal with cpu cores, rings, queues, umems and everything related. Since I don't really need to redirect the heartbeat reply packet to user-space, just acknowledge that a reply was received (that can happen in the XDP program) is there a layer or library over AF_XDP that allows for a simpler tx API which abstracts the underlying mechanisms I mentioned?
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