From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] introduce fail-safe PMD
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 13:50:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09a808a2-2398-fc10-057c-b3595572e910@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3248422.BZSJxlJxmA@xps13>
On 3/20/2017 3:00 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> There have been some discussions on this new PMD and it will be
> discussed today in the techboard meeting.
>
> I would like to expose my view and summarize the solutions I have heard.
> First it is important to remind that everyone agrees on the need for
> this feature, i.e. masking the hotplug events by maintaining an ethdev
> object even without real underlying device.
>
> 1/
> The proposal from Gaetan is to add a failsafe driver with 2 features:
> * masking underlying device
> * limited and small failover code to switch from a device
> to another one, with the same centralized configuration
> The latter feature makes think to the bonding driver, but it could be
> kept limited without any intent of implementing real bonding features.
>
> 2/
> If we really want to merge failsafe and bonding features, we could
> create a new bonding driver with centralized configuration.
> The legacy bonding driver let each slave to be configured separately.
> It is a different model and we should not mix them.
> If one is better, it could be deprecated later.
>
> 3/
> It can be tried to implement the failsafe feature into the bonding
> driver, as Neil suggests.
> However, I am not sure it would work very well or would be easy to use.
>
> 4/
> We can implement only the failsafe feature as a PMD and use it to wrap
> the slaves of the bonding driver.
> So the order of link would be
> bonding -> failsafe -> real device
> In this model, failsafe can have only one slave and do not implement
> the fail-over feature.
>
Tech board decided [1] to "reconsider" the PMD for this release (17.08).
So, lets start it J
I think it is good idea to continue on top of above summary, is there a
plan to how to proceed?
Thanks,
ferruh
[1]
http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-March/061009.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-17 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-03 15:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] " Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/12] ethdev: save VLAN filter setting Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 17:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/12] ethdev: add flow API rule copy function Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/12] ethdev: add deferred intermediate device state Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 17:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/12] pci: expose device detach routine Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/12] pci: expose parse and probe routines Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/12] net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 17:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-03-06 14:19 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/12] net/failsafe: add plug-in support Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/12] net/failsafe: add flexible device definition Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/12] net/failsafe: support flow API Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/12] net/failsafe: support offload capabilities Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/12] net/failsafe: add fast burst functions Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 15:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/12] net/failsafe: support device removal Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-03 16:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/12] introduce fail-safe PMD Bruce Richardson
2017-03-06 13:53 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-03 17:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] " Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/13] ethdev: save VLAN filter setting Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 02/13] ethdev: add flow API rule copy function Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/13] ethdev: add deferred intermediate device state Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 04/13] pci: expose device detach routine Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 05/13] pci: expose parse and probe routines Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/13] net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/13] net/failsafe: add plug-in support Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/13] net/failsafe: add flexible device definition Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 09/13] net/failsafe: support flow API Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 10/13] net/failsafe: support offload capabilities Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/13] net/failsafe: add fast burst functions Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 12/13] net/failsafe: support device removal Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 15:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 13/13] net/failsafe: support link status change event Gaetan Rivet
2017-03-08 16:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/13] introduce fail-safe PMD Neil Horman
2017-03-09 9:15 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-10 9:13 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-10 22:43 ` Neil Horman
2017-03-14 14:49 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-15 3:28 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-15 11:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-15 14:25 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-16 20:50 ` Neil Horman
2017-03-17 10:56 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-18 19:51 ` Neil Horman
2017-03-20 15:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-05-17 12:50 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-05-17 16:59 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-03-23 13:01 ` Ferruh Yigit
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