Lets record people involved on XDP development. Need this to Cc the right people on the mailing list.
The early “moonshot” ideas behind having a step before allocating the SKB, was presented by Jesper at NetDev 1.1 (Feb 2016), who also did PoC experiments (with mlx5) extrapolating a performance could reach 19Mpps per core. Today we are seeing between 16Mpps to 24Mpps per core depending on which NIC HW used (mlx5 driver).
http://people.netfilter.org/hawk/presentations/NetDev1.1_2016/net_performance_BoF.pdf
The initial XDP patchset was developed by: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@gmail.com> / <bblanco@vmware.com> After this Brenden have not been active developing XDP.
The XDP name was coined by Tom Herbert. Tom Herbert and Alexei Starovoitov did the first presentation about XDP, while both working for Facebook.
https://github.com/iovisor/bpf-docs/blob/master/Express_Data_Path.pdf
eBPF maintainers:
- Alexei Starovoitov
- Daniel Borkmann
Core XDP developers:
- Brenden Blanco <bblanco@gmail.com> (initial XDP patchset)
- Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> (coined XDP)
- John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
- Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> (netronome + core work)
- Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> (netronome + core work)
- David Ahern (fib lookup helper)
eBPF core developers influencing XDP:
- Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Driver developers:
- Andy Gospodarek (bnxt_en + presentations)
- Michael Chan (bnxt_en)
- Saeed Mahameed (mlx5)
- Tariq Toukan (mlx4)
- Björn Töpel (i40e + ixgbe + AF_XDP)
- Magnus Karlsson (i40e + AF_XDP)
- Yuval Mintz (qede)
- Sunil Goutham (thunderx)
- Jason Wang (VM)
- Michael S. Tsirkin (ptr_ring)
- Edward Cree (sfc)
- Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@lab.ntt.co.jp> (veth)
Developers unsorted:
- PJ (still waiting for data_meta work)
Proposal for evolving API see: areas/mem/page_pool01_evolving_API.org
People interested in working on page_pool API:
- Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com> / <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>
- Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Potential people interested:
- Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- mykyta.iziumtsev@gmail.com (Ericsson engineer)
- ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (from Linaro)
People to keep in loop:
- Toke
- Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
- Daniel
- Alexei?
Drivers that will get XDP and use page_pool:
- driver: mlx5
- driver: mvpp2 board: Macchiatobin
- driver: mvneta board: espressobin + Turris-Omnia