RE: Linux router network cards

micah anderson <micah@riseup.net> writes:

Thanks for the reply.

Philip Loenneker <Philip.Loenneker@tasmanet.com.au> writes:

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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