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    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'XDP-transmission-for-tuntap' · e8b18af8
      David S. Miller authored
      
      
      Jason Wang says:
      
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      XDP transmission for tuntap
      
      This series tries to implement XDP transmission (ndo_xdp_xmit) for
      tuntap. Pointer ring was used for queuing both XDP buffers and
      sk_buff, this is done by encoding the type into lowest bit of the
      pointer and storin XDP metadata in the headroom of XDP buff.
      
      Tests gets 3.05 Mpps when doing xdp_redirect_map from ixgbe to VM
      (testpmd + virtio-net in guest). This gives us ~20% improvments
      compared to use skb during redirect.
      
      Please review.
      
      Changes from V1:
      
      - slient warnings
      - fix typos
      - add skb mode number in the commit log
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      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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