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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:08:08 -0500
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] FW: [PATCH bpf-next 2/4] xsk: allow AF_XDP
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On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 17:21 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 
> My concern was that we want the applications to encode fast path
> logic
> in BPF and load that into the kernel. So your patch works
> fundamentally
> against that goal:

I'm only one AF_XDP user but my main goal is to get packets to
userspace as fast as possible. I don't (currently) need a BPF program
in the path at all. I suspect that many other people that look at
AF_XDP as a DPDK replacement have a similar view.