Advantages of XDP

Onload User Guide (UG1586)

Document ID
UG1586
Release Date
2023-07-31
Revision
1.2 English

The advantages of XDP are as follows:

  • An eBPF program is executed before received packets reach the network stack.
  • An eBPF program is executed before expensive socket memory allocations for received packets.
  • Dropped packets incur low CPU overhead and do not consume packet socket buffers.