From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: DPDK <dev@dpdk.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:59:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160303085915.517441f8@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D80DED.8040909@intel.com>
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:11:57 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/2016 10:18 PM, Jay Rolette wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> > <stephen@networkplumber.org <mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org>> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:33:25 -0600
> > Jay Rolette <rolette@infiniteio.com <mailto:rolette@infiniteio.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com <mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I totally agree with Avi's comments.
> > > > This topic is really important for the future of DPDK.
> > > > So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion
> > > > and have netdev involved in the choices done.
> > > > As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the
> > release 16.04.
> > > > Thanks for continuing the work.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I know you guys are very interested in getting rid of the out-of-tree
> > > drivers, but please do not block incremental improvements to DPDK
> > in the
> > > meantime. Ferruh's patch improves the usability of KNI. Don't
> > throw out
> > > good and useful enhancements just because it isn't where you want
> > to be in
> > > the end.
> > >
> > > I'd like to see these be merged.
> > >
> > > Jay
> >
> > The code is really not ready. I am okay with cooperative development
> > but the current code needs to go into a staging type tree.
> > No compatibility, no ABI guarantees, more of an RFC.
> > Don't want vendors building products with it then screaming when it
> > gets rebuilt/reworked/scrapped.
> >
> >
> > That's fair. To be clear, it wasn't my intent for code that wasn't baked
> > yet to be merged.
> >
> > The main point of my comment was that I think it is important not to
> > halt incremental improvements to existing capabilities (KNI in this
> > case) just because there are philosophical or directional changes that
> > the community would like to make longer-term.
> >
> > Bird in the hand vs. two in the bush...
> >
>
> There are two different statements, first, code being not ready, I agree
> a fair point (although there is no argument to that statement, it makes
> hard to discuss this, I will put aside this), this implies when code is
> ready it can go in to repo.
>
> But not having kernel module, independent from their state against what
> they are trying to replace is something else. And this won't help on KNI
> related problems.
>
> Thanks,
> ferruh
>
Why not re-submit patches but put in lib/librte_eal/staging or similar path
and make sure that it does not get build by normal build process.
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2016-01-27 16:24 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-01-28 9:49 ` Remy Horton
2016-01-28 13:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-28 15:34 ` Avi Kivity
2016-02-28 20:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 9:43 ` Avi Kivity
2016-02-29 10:43 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 10:58 ` Avi Kivity
2016-02-29 11:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-29 11:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 15:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 15:19 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-02-29 15:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-29 16:04 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-02-29 14:33 ` Jay Rolette
2016-03-01 22:40 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-03-02 2:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-02 8:27 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-02 10:47 ` Vincent JARDIN
2016-03-02 10:51 ` Jim Thompson
2016-03-02 12:03 ` Vincent JARDIN
2016-03-02 22:51 ` Jim Thompson
2016-03-02 11:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-02 22:35 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-03 8:31 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-03 10:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-03 10:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-03 10:51 ` Panu Matilainen
2016-03-10 0:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-10 6:31 ` Vincent JARDIN
2016-03-02 22:18 ` Jay Rolette
2016-03-03 10:11 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-03 16:59 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-03-03 18:18 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 11:27 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 11:39 ` Avi Kivity
2016-02-29 14:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 20:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-01 0:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-01-27 16:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library Ferruh Yigit
2016-01-28 11:14 ` Remy Horton
2016-01-28 13:15 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-01-28 13:24 ` Jay Rolette
2016-01-28 13:56 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-01-28 13:57 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-01-28 14:22 ` Yigit, Ferruh
2016-01-27 16:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-12 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-12 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-12 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-17 19:58 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-02-18 10:43 ` Yigit, Ferruh
2016-02-12 13:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-17 19:39 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-02-18 10:11 ` Yigit, Ferruh
2016-02-26 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-26 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] lib/librte_ethtool: move librte_ethtool form examples to lib folder Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-26 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 1:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-01 15:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-26 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-26 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application Ferruh Yigit
2016-02-29 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports Remy Horton
2016-03-01 15:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 15:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] lib/librte_ethtool: move librte_ethtool form examples to lib folder Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 15:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/4] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 23:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-02 11:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 23:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-01 23:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-02 11:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 15:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/4] rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-01 15:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 11:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/4] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 11:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/4] lib/librte_ethtool: move librte_ethtool form examples to lib folder Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 11:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/4] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 11:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/4] rte_ctrl_if: add control interface library Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 11:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/4] examples/ethtool: add control interface support to the application Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-09 12:23 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-03-14 15:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/4] Use common Linux tools to control DPDK ports Ferruh Yigit
2016-03-14 17:40 ` Jay Rolette
2016-03-15 0:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
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