Linux router network cards

Fri Oct 23 08:58:29 UTC 2020

micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Philip Loenneker <Philip.Loenneker at 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