F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK (opens in new tab)

When originally published they wouldn’t even ack Patrick Kelsey, the author of libuinet or that they had forked libuinet.

Now they say this: “Thanks to libplebnet and libuinet this work became a lot easier.”

F-stack is literally forked libuinet using DPDK instead of netmap.

The net-net is that Kelsey took his work private and tencent isn’t advancing the work.

Back in the day I was sponsoring work on libuinet in order to move enough of the kernel needed for a security appliance to libuinet to underpin a performance improvement for pfsense.

Then Tencent did what they did, Patrick reacted as he did and that was over.

We pivoted to VPP. But back in 2016 it also needed a lot of work.

Hacker News is the kind of place where you can have _this_ submission (PRC-sponsored Tencent-owned network devkit) on the front page next to a submission about how PRC-sponsored cybercrime group Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074157

Thanks for the F-Stack!

It was considered innovative when it was first shared here eight years ago.