Accelerating with XDP over Mellanox ConnectX NICs

Originally published at: Accelerating with XDP over Mellanox ConnectX NICs | NVIDIA Technical Blog

This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a programmable data path in the Linux kernel network stack. It provides a framework to BPF and can enable high performance packet processing at runtime. XDP works in concert with the Linux network stack and is not a kernel bypass. Because…