From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (mail-wm0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB81058F7 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:44:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id q128so282299049wma.1 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:44:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WjvhTeB/Ykcq8kXcUg18UzwnyDFmkHP47aolxl5vchE=; b=xNm9NHKCI2hJQOgTE7wJ+gmMzJXiNRWzmI1sI/2I7YevjhvedPELk3ZBCbs7CHZIgu +C4g+SpN8Q2rzCmt3INwWMMp4Vr7aSvsL/2YAtuEkbiuCvserUrZbsXSssaXSvV2dRJu ck6mjd4Q34NhIM6+cF2SSdXn9RPE6Tp0ZomJF3uSZIwvqb7bpNDLU+4nKrvq/F43s447 gM/1RDqQ67VeojAdXfsskxrFcMr45YxnlcdHeLBiab4YTRru/KVqaqBikKO5poL4isLu tc/sol3mK4RvuoW1W7bUV76bpHRr85XmsY8q5qE8s+y2vcmHPNNEGiQ0Uh5rMYLsPlmJ oA8A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WjvhTeB/Ykcq8kXcUg18UzwnyDFmkHP47aolxl5vchE=; b=YsZaMVrw9Mu/8KHAfy0yl1K4DrIFdPQTCB6w7DrOTRCaZTqi6u/yJyiDSpPxMywAMk SaM1sKLJTftOoVyb6K2bo2n6JTgmkNdjLBkgmkK+6l/+zjfi6YUrF1HbJVR+7ZALXHHH 1tde4dkYQ8xAz453cFwe9VR7h2jIDGLAO217VUleEvpB5htI9vhUDvJcup4cZhKHBQp6 TJek+jxTQGEkW0DMYJavdHe407gYBY6EmdoIVBsEi5yviNKY4ypBSk6/QzquZE7cA9aX qM2qWrS322AdK4JQoo/URLhilzvMRE0xnI25UB95wSNq2TMWb1b1YSRE/91FFLCgJW+v e9VA== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwNGrqcf1Ovho2pLUYRT6ei9s9lUFTqf/OoqSbKhvCLLlR9mhs+8yTau5vqB9VLSvSMd X-Received: by 10.194.127.163 with SMTP id nh3mr4509535wjb.74.1472222649361; Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id kq2sm20292370wjc.41.2016.08.26.07.44.08 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:44:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Finn Christensen Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:44:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4874006.xIzEWfahEa@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20160826134401.19337-1-fc@napatech.com> References: <20160826134401.19337-1-fc@napatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ntnic: add PMD driver 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: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:44:09 -0000 Welcome, 2016-08-26 13:44, Finn Christensen: > +NTNIC Poll Mode Driver > +====================== > + > +The NTNIC poll mode driver library (**librte_pmd_ntnic**) implements support > +for **Napatech NIC** 40/50 Gbps adapters. > +This PMD is implemented as a pure software virtual device and must be created > +by using the EAL --vdev=parameter (parameters are explained i detail later). > +It runs on top of the Napatech NIC Driver Suite that must be installed and > +started. It would help a lot to describe what is the Napatech NIC Driver Suite, and why it is a virtual driver. What is the hardware it runs on? Where can we get it? Where can we download the Driver Suite? > +Supported Features > +------------------ > + > +- RSS (Receive Side Scaling) > +- TSS (Transmit Side Scaling) > +- Promiscuous mode > +- Basic statistics > + > + > +Prerequisites > +------------- > + > +Requires Napatech NIC and Napatech NIC Driver Suite installed and > +running in version **0.3.0** or higher. > +This includes external libraries and kernel driver for resources > +allocations and initialization. So the Driver Suite is just a library to help implementing the driver for the Napatech NIC? Thanks for explaining your solution