From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com (mail-pa0-f46.google.com [209.85.220.46]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756638E59 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:16:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id ho8so179788172pac.2 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:16:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B+JjgpB2Ah/F4tAA5VO6eqNLNNaD3rNvoG4Ub84gJKQ=; b=ohu+0Uw1wuqoeKlsfEcFO5qXaHutjshk6hoWYv4nFoEA7wVhybySzSn0S9amAwOaRT rCY4IBPuQrVcLubjzfGg0nk4aThU87tjSbv1Ygp9BVQ4EVcLF6jcF9+DmSZivuxmJp73 H4OnF4Ci+vgrnETSDJnQsKbFhWpT4I5RNqQ90bed5IJP6ZI1s8blqIO9e+CZYmvu0vvh 6ORnzSODwYcq/n+TS/xJbdyjv2qSx3Nge9N4pXm6ZyEezfFUNKCC2PFRNylHkGtSZBu0 0qwLXBNpS77izHJUUOOeBSIjrnTGq6XohF7OG7Z5UiZQnd1BDO8YkYN9U+Rw5tQld98V rALA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B+JjgpB2Ah/F4tAA5VO6eqNLNNaD3rNvoG4Ub84gJKQ=; b=OYapAM5ooTv4qyxEkiDc4xrMRnBtoND6akYY8BlFGyMmj9VXbnBmsI0+H7YZHI8k/L dMrgAr76uk6sk+l5cjuzP6rXoIc0ALzBPALXsMdVT+PXPFqk+F72TMkSEfNbxSCPYQh+ 6H3symJamZhBaTIfvLBvN7piwmdStf4vhPuWBKJDyr2Fg2ie2yy+XRZ70ve9P3gz8ylu UmzcEAs4XEu74jS2Vn7ewTKafD3okVW7gJbI76+H7dN3daWHbbPdC6p/JaiPJ5HUy0Ky Z2YaDGSk8VXupyXnWfm9VAmEl73CSY+9NFzD/qLW4PEM0NywkcTkeneH8r0oCtZpb9VO 1ahw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkD65JH8JOAoCkZPKehymD5VhBDALUhOhKYXG4wCWL0r5OkgULMHHmgakCfDhvtT/sHbl6fdzYzNqVC1sMk5tVwgDeTfA== X-Received: by 10.66.162.9 with SMTP id xw9mr40057407pab.46.1453159005777; Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:16:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from xeon-e3 (static-50-53-82-155.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net. [50.53.82.155]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t67sm36405896pfa.14.2016.01.18.15.16.45 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:16:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:12:30 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <20160118151230.194a95c6@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <1452874684-12750-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> References: <1452874684-12750-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/3] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:16:47 -0000 On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:18:01 +0000 Ferruh Yigit wrote: > This work is to make DPDK ports more visible and to enable using common > Linux tools to configure DPDK ports. > > Patch is based on KNI but contains only control functionality of it, > also this patch does not include any Linux kernel network driver as > part of it. I actually would like KNI to die and be replaced by something generic. Right now with KNI it is driver and hardware specific. It is almost as if there are three drivers for ixgbe, the Linux driver, the DPDK driver, and the KNI driver.