People involved in XDP development

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)
• Jesper Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
• Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>

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)
• Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> (netsec)
• Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org> (mvneta)
• Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com>

Developers unsorted:

• PJ (still waiting for data_meta work)

The repository contains a number of files that track more specific areas of XDP development. These are included in the following list:

• Top-level XDP project management
• Brainstorm notes
• Conference planning document
• People involved in XDP development
• Project management: Planning who is working on what
• XDP-related project ideas for students
• areas
  • Brainstorming around XDP-accelerated flowcache
  • Project management for CPUMAP
  • Project management for XDP Cloud-Provider
  • Project management for XDP and Open vSwitch integration
  • Project management for XDP driver support
  • Project management for XDP-tutorial
  • Project management for areas/mem