From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB9AF275D for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:23:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Aug 2016 02:21:40 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,470,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="150452429" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 04 Aug 2016 02:21:37 -0700 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (sivswdev02.ir.intel.com [10.237.217.46]) by irvmail001.ir.intel.com (8.14.3/8.13.6/MailSET/Hub) with ESMTP id u749LaEH029154 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:21:36 +0100 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id u749LaHH017008 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:21:36 +0100 Received: (from fyigit@localhost) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with id u749La1e017004 for spp@dpdk.org; Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:21:36 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: sivswdev02.ir.intel.com: fyigit set sender to ferruh.yigit@intel.com using -f From: Ferruh Yigit To: spp@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 10:21:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1470302493-16969-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 Subject: [spp] [PATCH] doc: add initial README file X-BeenThere: spp@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Soft Patch Panel List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 09:23:08 -0000 To document what SPP is. Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit --- README | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27e3b35 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Soft Patch Panel +================ + +The goal of SPP is to easily interconnect DPDK applications together, +and assign resources dynamically to these applications to build a +pipeline. + +The first version of SPP provides for the management of DPDK ports, and +assigning ports to different DPDK applications. + +The framework is composed of a primary DPDK application that is +responsible for resource management. This primary application doesn't +interact with any traffic, and is used to manage creation and freeing of +resources only. + +A Python based management interface is provided to control the primary +DPDK application to create resources, which are then to be used by +secondary applications. This management application provides a socket +based interface for the primary and secondary DPDK applications to +interface to the manager. The management application will use OVSDB to +maintain all created and assigned ports. -- 2.7.4