From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B897CD392 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:05:09 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=intel; t=1490785509; x=1522321509; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date: mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rci3g25Z70ZD4+IHfNTPYi2r6tdyvNIzYwmkHnkby6g=; b=LQWnhlIL1AwnYDLyQ/0kpYBNwAZvQRvIFwknycDnojoVfPo/ZbgNtApN jR8Rwwlrb2vfPbPgwKMIwCU084a03w==; Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 Mar 2017 04:05:08 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,240,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="82243610" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.122]) ([10.237.220.122]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 Mar 2017 04:05:06 -0700 To: Vincent JARDIN , Allain Legacy References: <20170323112413.175202-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com> <20170328115409.23487-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com> <668f82f3-f816-d5b8-4d0e-3bc59b778008@6wind.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ian.jolliffe@windriver.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, keith.wiles@intel.com, tim.odriscoll@intel.com, thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, 3chas3@gmail.com From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:05:06 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <668f82f3-f816-d5b8-4d0e-3bc59b778008@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/14] Wind River Systems AVP PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:05:10 -0000 On 3/29/2017 11:44 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > Le 28/03/2017 à 13:53, Allain Legacy a écrit : >> This patch series submits an initial version of the AVP PMD from Wind River >> Systems. The series includes shared header files, driver implementation, >> and changes to documentation files in support of this new driver. The AVP >> driver is a shared memory based device. It is intended to be used as a PMD >> within a virtual machine running on a Wind River virtualization platform. >> See: http://www.windriver.com/products/titanium-cloud/ >> >> It enables optimized packet throughput without requiring any packet >> processing in qemu. This allowed us to provide our customers with a >> significant performance increase for both DPDK and non-DPDK applications >> in the VM. Since our AVP implementation supports VM live-migration it >> is viewed as a better alternative to PCI passthrough or PCI SRIOV since >> neither of those support VM live-migration without manual intervention >> or significant performance penalties. >> >> Since the initial implementation of AVP devices, vhost-user has become part >> of the qemu offering with a significant performance increase over the >> original virtio implementation. However, vhost-user still does not achieve >> the level of performance that the AVP device can provide to our customers >> for DPDK based guests. >> >> A number of our customers have requested that we upstream the driver to >> dpdk.org. > > Acked-by: vincent.jardin@6wind.com Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.