Re: [RFC 2/2] net: bridge: add a software fast-path implementation

[Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>]

Hi Nik,

I'd like to follow up on our discussion regarding bridge offloading.
I managed to come up with a user space + eBPF implementation that 
replaces this code and shows mostly the same performance gain as my 
previous kernel space implementation.

At first I tried to use generic XDP, but after getting it working, 
performance was pretty bad (due to headroom issues) and I was told that 
this is by design and nobody should use it in production.

Then I reworked the code to use tc classifier instead and it worked much 
better.

It's not fully ready yet, I need to add some more tests for incompatible 
features, but I'm getting there...
The code is here: https://github.com/nbd168/bridger

There's one thing I haven't been able to figure out yet: What's the 
proper way to keep bridge fdb entries alive from user space without 
modifying them in any other way?

- Felix