linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: lan966x: Add xdp support

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Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:57:35 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc:     Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, ast@...nel.org,
        daniel@...earbox.net, hawk@...nel.org, john.fastabend@...il.co,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/4] net: lan966x: Add xdp support

> Nice stuff! I hear time to time that XDP is for 10G+ NICs only, but
> I'm not a fan of such, and this series proves once again XDP fits
> any hardware ^.^

The Freescale FEC recently gained XDP support. Many variants of it are
Fast Ethernet only.

What i found most interesting about that patchset was that the use of
the page_ppol API made the driver significantly faster for the general
case as well as XDP.

     Andrew