[dpdk-dev] Intent to upstream Atomic Rules net/ark "Arkville" in DPDK 17.05

[Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com>]

Atomic Rules would like to include our Arkville DPDK PMD net/ark in the
DPDK 17.05 release. We have been watching the recent process of
Solarflare’s net/sfc upstreaming and we decided it would be too aggressive
for us to get in on 17.02. Rather than be the last in queue for 17.02, we
would prefer to be one of the first in the queue for 17.05. This post is
our statement of that intent.


Arkville is a product from Atomic Rules which is a combination of hardware
and software. In the DPDK community, the easy way to describe Arkville is
that it is a line-rate agnostic FPGA-based NIC that does include any
specific MAC. Arkville is unique in that the design process worked backward
from the DPDK API/ABI to allow us to design RTL DPDK-aware data movers.
Arkville’s customers are the small and brave set of users that demand an
FPGA exist between their MAC ports and their host. A link to a slide deck
and product preview shown last month at SC16 is at the end of this post.


Although we’ve done substantial testing; we are just now setting up a
proper DTS environment. Our first course of business is to add two 10 GbE
ports and make Arkville look like a Fortville X710-DA2. This is strange for
us because we started out with four 100 GbE ports, and not much else to
talk to! We are eager to work with merchant 100 GbE ASIC NICs to help bring
DTS into the 100 GbE realm. But 100 GbE aside, as soon as we see our
net/ark PMD playing nice in DTS with a Fortville, and the 17.05 aperture
opens;  we will commence the patch submission process.


Thanks all who have helped us get this far so soon. Anyone needing
additional details that aren’t DPDK community wide, please contact me
directly.


Shep for AR Team


Shepard Siegel, CTO

atomicrules.com



Links:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5548901/share/AtomicRules_Arkville_SC16.pdf


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