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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] Introduce AF_XDP PMD
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:43:24 +0000
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On 3/1/2019 8:09 AM, Xiaolong Ye wrote:
> Overview
> ========
> 
> This patchset adds a new PMD driver for AF_XDP which is a proposed
> faster version of AF_PACKET interface in Linux, see below links [1] [2] for
> details of AF_XDP introduction:
> 
> AF_XDP roadmap
> ==============
> - AF_XDP is included in upstream kernel since 4.18, and AF_XDP support
>   in libbpf has been merged in bpf-next/master. [3]

And it seems it has been merged into main repo [1], I assume it will be part of
5.1, which I guess will be released mid May.

And we have release on 10 May. Taking into account that libbpf APIs used
extensively, does it mean we can't release af_xdp on 19.05?


[1]
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=1cad078842396f0047a796694b6130fc096d97e2

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