RE: Linux router network cards

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

micah anderson <micah () riseup net> writes:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Philip Loenneker <Philip.Loenneker () tasmanet com au> writes:
> > Take a look at the Mellanox ConnectX 5 series of cards. They handle
> > DPDK, PVRDMA (basically SR-IOV that allows live migration between
> > hosts), and can even process packets within the NIC for some
>
> From what I can tell, SR-IOV/PVRDMA aren't really useful for me in
> building a router that wont be doing any virtualization.
>
> If the card can do DPDK, can it do XDP?

The Connect-X 5 has excellent XDP support - it's what we used for the
XDP paper:

https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-paper#hardware

-Toke