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From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "Konstantin Ananyev" <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC 0/8] ioring: network driver
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:40:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9F969@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3426021bf73d4e42bbe35597976a2d85@huawei.com>

> From: Konstantin Ananyev [mailto:konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com]
> 
> > > > This is first draft of new simplified TAP device that uses
> > > > the Linux kernel ioring API to provide a read/write ring
> > > > with kernel.
> > > >
> > > > This is split from tap device because there are so many
> > > > unnecessary things in existing tap, and supporting ioring is
> > > > better without ifdefs etc. The default name of the tap
> > > > device is different that other uses in DPDK but the driver
> > > > tries to keep the same relevant devargs as before.
> > > >
> > > > This driver will only provide features that match what kernel
> > > > does, so no flow support etc. The next version will add checksum
> > > > and multi-segment packets. Some of the doc files may need update
> > > > as well.
> > >
> > > Makes sense to me, though didn't properly look inside.
> > > One thing - probably add  a 'tap' into the name,
> > > 'tap_ioiring' or so, otherwise 'ioring' is a bit too generic
> > > and might be confusing.

Konstantin is referring to the name of the driver and the source code file names, "net/ioring" -> "net/tap_ioring".

> >
> > There are some userspaces that look for "e*" in name for some setups.

Stephen is referring to the device name of an instantiated interface, e.g. "eth0".

And yes, assuming devices named "e*" are Ethernet devices is a common hack in Linux applications. I've done it myself. :-)

> 
> Didn't get you here, pls try to re-phrase.
> 
> > But names are totally arbitrary



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-19 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-10 21:23 Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 1/8] net/ioring: introduce new driver Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 2/8] net/ioring: implement link state Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 3/8] net/ioring: implement control functions Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 4/8] net/ioring: implement management functions Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 5/8] net/ioring: implement primary secondary fd passing Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 6/8] net/ioring: implement receive and transmit Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 7/8] net/ioring: add VLAN support Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-10 21:23 ` [RFC 8/8] net/ioring: implement statistics Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 11:34 ` [RFC 0/8] ioring: network driver Konstantin Ananyev
2024-12-11 15:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-12 19:06     ` Konstantin Ananyev
2024-12-19 15:40       ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2024-12-20 14:34         ` Konstantin Ananyev
2024-12-20 16:19           ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28 ` [PATCH v2 " Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] net/ioring: introduce new driver Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] net/ioring: implement link state Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] net/ioring: implement control functions Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] net/ioring: implement management functions Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] net/ioring: implement primary secondary fd passing Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] net/ioring: implement receive and transmit Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] net/ioring: add VLAN support Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11 16:28   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] net/ioring: implement statistics Stephen Hemminger

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