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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] xdp: Infrastructure to generalize XDP
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:58:33 +0200
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On 09/21/16 at 11:50am, Tom Herbert wrote:
> 50 lines in one driver is not a big deal, 50 lines in a hundred
> drivers is! I learned this lesson in BQL which was well abstracted out
> to be minimally invasive but we still saw many issues because of the
> pecularities of different drivers.

You want to enable XDP in a hundred drivers? Are you planning to
deploy ISA NIC based ILA routers? ;-)