Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/IntelIGB-AF-XDP-Zero-Copy
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14
Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramatic in leveraging this zero-copy path...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/IntelIGB-AF-XDP-Zero-Copy
Video: io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP
Nice introduction and explanation what makes networking fast or slow within the Linux kernel (like passing through many components) and how io_uring and eBPF solve certain problems.
Nice introduction and explanation what makes networking fast or slow within the Linux kernel (like passing through many components) and how io_uring and eBPF solve certain problems.
io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP
Modern high-performance networking APIs on Linux - beyond the classic BSD sockets API. For many decades, application software programmer...
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February 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Video: io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP
Nice introduction and explanation what makes networking fast or slow within the Linux kernel (like passing through many components) and how io_uring and eBPF solve certain problems.
Nice introduction and explanation what makes networking fast or slow within the Linux kernel (like passing through many components) and how io_uring and eBPF solve certain problems.
Video demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Emx...
Wireblast Demo: 100 Gbps Packet Generation with AF_XDP
YouTube video by Andree Toonk
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August 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Video demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Emx...
Virtual machines aren’t going away but they shouldn’t require a separate network stack.
Cilium is starting to change that. By combining AF_XDP with netkit, it collapses the network path for VMs. It’s a promising glimpse at a more unified, efficient future
Cilium is starting to change that. By combining AF_XDP with netkit, it collapses the network path for VMs. It’s a promising glimpse at a more unified, efficient future
July 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Virtual machines aren’t going away but they shouldn’t require a separate network stack.
Cilium is starting to change that. By combining AF_XDP with netkit, it collapses the network path for VMs. It’s a promising glimpse at a more unified, efficient future
Cilium is starting to change that. By combining AF_XDP with netkit, it collapses the network path for VMs. It’s a promising glimpse at a more unified, efficient future
Me using AF_XDP to bypass the kernel’s packet processing
October 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Me using AF_XDP to bypass the kernel’s packet processing
At the eBPF workshop, Panayiotis Gavriil introduced uXDP, a new XDP runtime that allows you to run unmodified XDP programs on top of DPDK or AF_XDP. uXDP was able to improve the performance of an unmodified Katran by 40%!
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1xrGE...
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1xrGE...
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
September 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
At the eBPF workshop, Panayiotis Gavriil introduced uXDP, a new XDP runtime that allows you to run unmodified XDP programs on top of DPDK or AF_XDP. uXDP was able to improve the performance of an unmodified Katran by 40%!
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1xrGE...
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/1xrGE...
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
AF_XDP copy mode has received less attention than its zero-copy mode. At Netdev 0x1A, Jason Xing showed how he almost doubled the performance of AF_XDP copy mode after methodically profiling it!
Slides: netdevconf.info/0x1A/docs/ne...
Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyu...
Slides: netdevconf.info/0x1A/docs/ne...
Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyu...
September 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
AF_XDP copy mode has received less attention than its zero-copy mode. At Netdev 0x1A, Jason Xing showed how he almost doubled the performance of AF_XDP copy mode after methodically profiling it!
Slides: netdevconf.info/0x1A/docs/ne...
Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyu...
Slides: netdevconf.info/0x1A/docs/ne...
Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyu...
io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP has been released on media.ccc.de https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-iouring-ebpf-xdp-and-afxdp https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/iouring-ebpf-xdp-and-afxdp/
December 28, 2024 at 10:35 PM
io_uring, eBPF, XDP and AF_XDP has been released on media.ccc.de https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-iouring-ebpf-xdp-and-afxdp https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/event/iouring-ebpf-xdp-and-afxdp/
With AF_XDP I can push 100M packets/sec from one Linux box. That’s enough to probe basically the entire public IPv4 Internet in under a minute 🤯
That’s kind of insane.
I think I know what I want to build next... 🤓
That’s kind of insane.
I think I know what I want to build next... 🤓
August 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
With AF_XDP I can push 100M packets/sec from one Linux box. That’s enough to probe basically the entire public IPv4 Internet in under a minute 🤯
That’s kind of insane.
I think I know what I want to build next... 🤓
That’s kind of insane.
I think I know what I want to build next... 🤓
Hacker Newsies complaining about how much code there is in an async runtime while I write an async wrapper around AF_XDP to stop calling all this kernel code just to read a packet off the NIC
November 8, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Hacker Newsies complaining about how much code there is in an async runtime while I write an async wrapper around AF_XDP to stop calling all this kernel code just to read a packet off the NIC
Userspace library for chaining co-located AF_XDP network applications
GitHub - networkedsystemsIITB/flash: FLASH userspace library for chaining co-located AF_XDP network applications
FLASH userspace library for chaining co-located AF_XDP network applications - networkedsystemsIITB/flash
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December 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Userspace library for chaining co-located AF_XDP network applications
Wireblast: a fast and easy-to-use AF_XDP Traffic Generator for Linux, written in Go - On a 100G Mellanox Link it fills the pipe at every frame size, including 138 million packets per second of the smallest frames, from a single process. #Network #Linux toonk.io/wireblast-bu...
Wireblast: a 100Gbs packet generator in Go with AF_XDP
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I love tinkering with packets and making them go fast in software. Today I'm releasing a new tool called wireblast, a blazingly fast network packet…
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August 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Wireblast: a fast and easy-to-use AF_XDP Traffic Generator for Linux, written in Go - On a 100G Mellanox Link it fills the pipe at every frame size, including 138 million packets per second of the smallest frames, from a single process. #Network #Linux toonk.io/wireblast-bu...
Wireblast: a 100Gbs packet generator in Go with AF_XDP https://toonk.io/wireblast-building-a-line-rate-packet-generator-in-go-with-af_xdp/index.html
Wireblast: a 100Gbs packet generator in Go with AF_XDP
toonk.io
August 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Wireblast: a 100Gbs packet generator in Go with AF_XDP https://toonk.io/wireblast-building-a-line-rate-packet-generator-in-go-with-af_xdp/index.html
Been geeking out on packet processing in Go lately.
Result: go-afxdp, a Go library for AF_XDP. Send and receive at ~14M packets/sec (10G line rate) in just a few lines of Go. No DPDK, no C, and you don't lose your NIC. Blog toonk.io/line-rate-pa...
and the code github.com/atoonk/go-af...
Result: go-afxdp, a Go library for AF_XDP. Send and receive at ~14M packets/sec (10G line rate) in just a few lines of Go. No DPDK, no C, and you don't lose your NIC. Blog toonk.io/line-rate-pa...
and the code github.com/atoonk/go-af...
Line-rate packet processing in Go with AF_XDP
If you've been following my blog for a while, you know I have a soft spot for making packets go fast in software. I'm a network guy at heart, raised on routing and switching, but these days most of th...
toonk.io
July 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Been geeking out on packet processing in Go lately.
Result: go-afxdp, a Go library for AF_XDP. Send and receive at ~14M packets/sec (10G line rate) in just a few lines of Go. No DPDK, no C, and you don't lose your NIC. Blog toonk.io/line-rate-pa...
and the code github.com/atoonk/go-af...
Result: go-afxdp, a Go library for AF_XDP. Send and receive at ~14M packets/sec (10G line rate) in just a few lines of Go. No DPDK, no C, and you don't lose your NIC. Blog toonk.io/line-rate-pa...
and the code github.com/atoonk/go-af...
We just hit a massive baseline of 2.10M pps (peaking at ~2.75M pps) via Multi-Channel Routing (MCR) Packet Spraying.
• Zero-copy datapath (AF_XDP + Rust 🦀)
🔗 Explore the Repositories: github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops
#SystemsEngineering #RustLang #NetworkArchitecture #SovereignMohawk #Infra
• Zero-copy datapath (AF_XDP + Rust 🦀)
🔗 Explore the Repositories: github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops
#SystemsEngineering #RustLang #NetworkArchitecture #SovereignMohawk #Infra
rwilliamspbg-ops - Overview
rwilliamspbg-ops has 24 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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June 24, 2026 at 11:23 AM
We just hit a massive baseline of 2.10M pps (peaking at ~2.75M pps) via Multi-Channel Routing (MCR) Packet Spraying.
• Zero-copy datapath (AF_XDP + Rust 🦀)
🔗 Explore the Repositories: github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops
#SystemsEngineering #RustLang #NetworkArchitecture #SovereignMohawk #Infra
• Zero-copy datapath (AF_XDP + Rust 🦀)
🔗 Explore the Repositories: github.com/rwilliamspbg-ops
#SystemsEngineering #RustLang #NetworkArchitecture #SovereignMohawk #Infra
Fun read: testing AF_XDP on Google Cloud C4N
great to a see wireblast mention! 🤓
Google's C4N offers up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth and 95 million packets per second (MPPS)
One core, nearly 6 Mpps.
medium.com/google-cloud...
great to a see wireblast mention! 🤓
Google's C4N offers up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth and 95 million packets per second (MPPS)
One core, nearly 6 Mpps.
medium.com/google-cloud...
One core, nearly 6 Mpps: testing AF_XDP on Google Cloud C4N
At Next ’26 this year, we announced our first network-focused machine type 🎉. Follows a quote from the official announcement:
medium.com
August 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Fun read: testing AF_XDP on Google Cloud C4N
great to a see wireblast mention! 🤓
Google's C4N offers up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth and 95 million packets per second (MPPS)
One core, nearly 6 Mpps.
medium.com/google-cloud...
great to a see wireblast mention! 🤓
Google's C4N offers up to 400 Gbps of network bandwidth and 95 million packets per second (MPPS)
One core, nearly 6 Mpps.
medium.com/google-cloud...
Last weekend I posted about doing 148M packets/sec from Go with DPDK
The thing I was really working toward is now out: packetio.
One Go API for DPDK, AF_XDP, mlx5 Direct Verbs, and AF_PACKET. Swap the backend, while keeping the packet processing code🤓
github.com/atoonk/packe...
The thing I was really working toward is now out: packetio.
One Go API for DPDK, AF_XDP, mlx5 Direct Verbs, and AF_PACKET. Swap the backend, while keeping the packet processing code🤓
github.com/atoonk/packe...
GitHub - atoonk/packetio
Contribute to atoonk/packetio development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 8, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Last weekend I posted about doing 148M packets/sec from Go with DPDK
The thing I was really working toward is now out: packetio.
One Go API for DPDK, AF_XDP, mlx5 Direct Verbs, and AF_PACKET. Swap the backend, while keeping the packet processing code🤓
github.com/atoonk/packe...
The thing I was really working toward is now out: packetio.
One Go API for DPDK, AF_XDP, mlx5 Direct Verbs, and AF_PACKET. Swap the backend, while keeping the packet processing code🤓
github.com/atoonk/packe...
Short demo my af_xdp based internet scanner 🤓 Running for 24hrs, by coincidence picked up the Hawaii Internet outage! Can find quickly what regions were affected and what ISP's were the main impacted ones. Pretty cool!
August 18, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Short demo my af_xdp based internet scanner 🤓 Running for 24hrs, by coincidence picked up the Hawaii Internet outage! Can find quickly what regions were affected and what ISP's were the main impacted ones. Pretty cool!
Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP
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Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP
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I had to send so much data I spent 6 months getting AF_XDP to work and fixing driver bugs in intel 10G NICS :)
July 1, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I had to send so much data I spent 6 months getting AF_XDP to work and fixing driver bugs in intel 10G NICS :)
Have worked on it for more than 1.5 years at this point. Yes, it needs AF_XDP to actually work and push the BW required :)
January 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Have worked on it for more than 1.5 years at this point. Yes, it needs AF_XDP to actually work and push the BW required :)
Build a custom Linux kernel with a full eBPF feature set (BTF, struct_ops/sched_ext, tracing, netem, BPF LSM, AF_XDP) and run it under Apple's container runtime on Apple Silicon macOS
GitHub - yuskesh/apple-container-ebpf-kernel: Build a custom Linux kernel with a full eBPF feature set (BTF, struct_ops/sched_ext, tracing, netem, BPF LSM, AF_XDP) and run it under Apple's container runtime on Apple Silicon macOS.
Build a custom Linux kernel with a full eBPF feature set (BTF, struct_ops/sched_ext, tracing, netem, BPF LSM, AF_XDP) and run it under Apple's container runtime on Apple Silicon macOS. - yuskes...
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June 26, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Build a custom Linux kernel with a full eBPF feature set (BTF, struct_ops/sched_ext, tracing, netem, BPF LSM, AF_XDP) and run it under Apple's container runtime on Apple Silicon macOS
In 2019, Ostinato tested an Intel XL710 40G NIC using DPDK. Today, Ostinato Turbo handles 10/25/40/100G line-rate using AF_XDP - no DPDK needed.
August 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
In 2019, Ostinato tested an Intel XL710 40G NIC using DPDK. Today, Ostinato Turbo handles 10/25/40/100G line-rate using AF_XDP - no DPDK needed.