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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Yong" <yong.liu@intel.com>,
	"Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>,
	bernard.iremonger@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: add bifurcated driver guide on ixgbe nic
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:14:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <367000689.y0psKNqMLI@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BB6961774997848B5B42BEC655768F80E169131@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com>

2016-07-08 08:42, Wu, Jingjing:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > Thank you for providing more doc.
> > I am just not convinced it is the right place
> > and it must be discussed.
> > Some questions below to help deciding where it must be.
> > 
> > 2016-06-23 11:02, Jingjing Wu:
> > > Bifurcated driver is a mechanism which depends the advanced
> > > Ethernet device to split traffic between queues. It provides
> > > the capability to let the kernel driver and DPDK driver co-exist
> > > and take their advantage.
> > 
> > The name "bifurcated driver" was used for a real driver proposal
> > in Linux. I don't think it applies here.

Where does the "bifurcated" name come from?
Could we rename it to "flow bifurcation" or "partial kernel bypass"?

> > > It is achieved by using SRIOV and NIC's advanced filtering. This
> > > patch describes it and adds the user guide on ixgbe NICs.
> > 
> > It is not a DPDK feature, just a use case.
> > What do we learn about DPDK?
> 
> Yes, it is an feature in Linux driver. And the typical use case how DPDK co-work with Linux networking.
> I think it will be a good reference. When I preparde this patch, I'm also doubt where to put, and the behavior
> may be NIC specific, so I added it here.
> 
> Any other suggestion?

Bernard is creating an howto section.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-08  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-23  3:02 Jingjing Wu
2016-06-23 12:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-08  8:42   ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-07-08  9:14     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-07-08  9:24       ` Mcnamara, John
2016-07-11  5:50       ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-07-14  8:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] doc: flow bifurcation guide on Linux Jingjing Wu
2016-07-17 19:31   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-07-19  3:31   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Jingjing Wu
2016-07-19 16:34     ` Mcnamara, John
2016-07-20  0:59       ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-07-22 17:23       ` Thomas Monjalon

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