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Refactor the MsQuic datapaths

Open guhetier opened this issue 2 weeks ago • 0 comments

MsQuic has multiple datapath, to support different platforms (Windows UM, Windows KM, Linux...) and transport technologies (XDP, IO uring...).

This lead the datapath layers to grow in a convoluted way, hard to understand and modify. The datapath and other platform abstraction being grouped in a single lib also make it hard to unit test other MsQuic components.

We should refactor the datapath to enable:

  • better compartmentalization of each datapath implementation
  • better testability of the core layer in isolation
  • easier development of new datapaths (fake datapaths for testing / experiement over other transport technologies...)

guhetier avatar Dec 04 '25 00:12 guhetier