Hi Stephen, Hi Ferruh,
I don't have a strong opinion on usage of regular sockets vs abstract sockets. My point is that most existing memif implementations
either don't yet properly support abstract sockets or require extra flags to be passed by users (iirc VPP, gomemif, libmemif, etc...).
As a matter of fact, abstract socket support in dpdk was broken until quite recently. So I expect most users to be somewhat
constrained by their implementation to use regular sockets.
Also, as a user when you come with a filesystem path, understanding you need to pass the following is not really straightforward
--vdev=net_memif,socket=/tmp/memif.sock,socket-abstract=no
A better solution might be to use the '@' prefix which seems the usual representation and remove the socket-abstract=no altogether
--vdev=net_memif,socket=@memif
--vdev=net_memif,socket=/tmp/memif.sock
What do you think ?
(Also iirc Jakub is not receiving emails on this address)
Cheers
-Nathan