RE: [dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-Oct-27

[Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>]

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> > > There was a comment to remove the TLV length. I will do that next
> > > version with implementation.
> > >
> > > Identified the following set of work for this.
> > >
> > > 1) Common code at lib/dwa/
> > > 2) Marvell DPU based driver at drivers/dwa/cnxk/
> > > 3) Test application at app/test-dwa/
> > > 4) It is possible to have an SW driver(To allow non-specialized HW
> > > to use the
> > > framework) for this by:
> > > a) Emulate DWA HW as a separate DPDK process
> > > b) Add drivers/dwa/sw/ and use memif driver so to create a
> > > communication channel between emulated DWA HW process and DPDK
> application.
> > Why use memif driver? Why not ring-pmd?
> 
> Planning to emulation DWA accelerator functional model as a separate DPDK
> process in SW case.
You mean the primary and secondary processes correct?

> Therefore memif is the ideal choice as it supports zero-copy of the data as
> well.
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html
Zero-copy in memif is nothing but exchanging pointers to shared data.
The rings work across the primary and secondary processes and are always zero-copy.
We are doing some perf comparisons between memif and rings, will let you know once we have the data.

> 
> >
> > > c) Add drivers/dwa/sw/profiles//l3fwd - To implement l3fwd profile
> > > using DPDK libraries for SW driver.
> > >
> > > I think, Item (4) aka SW drivers as useful(We don't need to
> > > implement for all profiles, I think, just for  l3fwd it make sense
> > > to add, to allow to use of the framework in just SW mode).
> > > Is there any opinion on adding item (4) in DPDK? I saw mixed
> > > opinions earlier on this. I would like to understand, Is there any
> > > objection to doing
> > > item(4) in DPDK as it needs a good amount of work and  I don't want
> > > to do throw it away if the community doesn't like this.
> > > Any opinion?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-October/226070.html
> > >
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