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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual devices
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:26:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <140509179.juH2PgJsn9@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1405024369-30058-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>

2014-07-10 16:32, John W. Linville:
> This is a Linux-specific virtual PMD driver backed by an AF_PACKET
> socket.  This implementation uses mmap'ed ring buffers to limit copying
> and user/kernel transitions.  The PACKET_FANOUT_HASH behavior of
> AF_PACKET is used for frame reception.  In the current implementation,
> Tx and Rx queues are always paired, and therefore are always equal
> in number -- changing this would be a Simple Matter Of Programming.
> 
> Interfaces of this type are created with a command line option like
> "--vdev=eth_packet0,iface=...".  There are a number of options availabe
> as arguments:
> 
>  - Interface is chosen by "iface" (required)
>  - Number of queue pairs set by "qpairs" (optional, default: 16)
>  - AF_PACKET MMAP block size set by "blocksz" (optional, default: 4096)
>  - AF_PACKET MMAP frame size set by "framesz" (optional, default: 2048)
>  - AF_PACKET MMAP frame count set by "framecnt" (optional, default: 512)
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> This PMD is intended to provide a means for using DPDK on a broad
> range of hardware without hardware-specific PMDs and (hopefully)
> with better performance than what PCAP offers in Linux.  This might
> be useful as a development platform for DPDK applications when
> DPDK-supported hardware is expensive or unavailable.

Thank you for this nice work.

I think it would be well suited to host this PMD as an external one in order 
to make it work also with DPDK 1.7.0.

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-10 20:32 John W. Linville
2014-07-11 13:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 14:49   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:06     ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:16       ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 16:07         ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:29       ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 15:33         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:29           ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 13:26 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-07-11 14:51   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:04     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 15:30       ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:47         ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 17:38           ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 17:41             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12 11:48           ` Neil Horman
     [not found] ` <D0158A423229094DA7ABF71CF2FA0DA3117D3A23@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2014-07-11 17:20   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 17:40     ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 18:01       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 18:46         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12  0:42           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-14 13:45             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 19:04       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 19:31         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 20:27           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:31             ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 20:35               ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:40                 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:34       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 13:46         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 21:27           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 12:35             ` Neil Horman
2014-07-16 13:37               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 14:07             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-16 14:26               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 15:59                 ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 22:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 17:53   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:51 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-07-14 13:48   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 17:35     ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 18:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2014-07-15  0:15   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 12:17     ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 14:01       ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 15:40         ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 19:08           ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 20:31         ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 20:41           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 15:34       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:05   ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 18:31     ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:54       ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 20:35         ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 15:09           ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 15:15             ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 15:43             ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 16:22               ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 17:48                 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 19:11                   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-16 20:16     ` Neil Horman
2014-09-26  9:28       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-09-26 14:08         ` Neil Horman
2014-09-29 10:05           ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-08 15:57             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-08 19:14               ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 10:03                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-13 11:14                   ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 11:57                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-14  0:42                       ` Neil Horman
2014-11-14 14:45                         ` John W. Linville
2014-11-17 15:57                           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] librte_pmd_af_packet: " John W. Linville
2014-11-24 16:16                             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-17 11:19                       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] librte_pmd_packet: " Neil Horman
2014-11-17 11:22                         ` Thomas Monjalon

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