From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (mail-wm0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F7406CAE for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:29:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id p65so73720536wmp.1 for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:29:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OLYl28qhLShef67JqpwPuX21aUy6D/LJ3aNlrpgeVU0=; b=KG9maFroBNlnEKGvzLIRkdKYc0a+HgysW7xLn+oEGp03NJwJEP++/HXU3tievdBynj yLSeumqSiu4O5pFm75m3W6YrC4O78a5KexwePCiphd2AvvghXVtblyr+KvNFKZudTNpl Np2iv729mfxuRYdXuKMMcoMTGwv/U6P2NqqPQqJ+5jYc+ZMssFuRd6ybSLKjzQUr8sJv wZh4xg3L8TlHsKUlsiu2YuU9zmxeHc3UOiZQi6Wom4tk/hFg2yZhq7QwhZaJICxBsc36 rop3qV0BVlQrLUUBiF2cKF1M/DNpGNC8fReAS9wFqfinWjaJ1GcWqXvYEh9ULzzeI8xz xjeA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OLYl28qhLShef67JqpwPuX21aUy6D/LJ3aNlrpgeVU0=; b=m1HuJk9FY/3t2sAdw+JvZsE5JpWshRqasCX2PZQvM6EI1u1+T9kKP6YXEsnAQJn/vX ko+4Y5QbVpiHK2VzZdOPmc/YZojTProLrd3FP7qWm67LLY7yV1KPbzcaaaF04xn5JxUn 8XNqQjEXPydfvlJslOWNTMjenVH0HuRbrWem+y3u3BZtLMImkrQCysQEfGscNGfhxnvE wJL4UADESbovk18zc63gIfzYmki+2QQFlUV1qjXjuO5lkfULyOfGsJAaTlzm5VMuW7tp kproyN/Rg1Je9wcYhjFebmDMr+p43C+Y3oqejqIJh/XwGcGjI8Ocpwo91D1JLH9iWCul e6jA== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJI9sBS5176T3sDz26Ny89vGxttHAItHNBse9w8K9W3QksFJpEv3q2/QGpflttLEyH1R X-Received: by 10.28.107.221 with SMTP id a90mr12531038wmi.76.1456759767164; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (171.36.101.84.rev.sfr.net. [84.101.36.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 63sm15772656wms.1.2016.02.29.07.29.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:29:26 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Ferruh Yigit Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:27:53 +0100 Message-ID: <10282518.JsUflhI4Jn@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <56D4618E.4090101@redhat.com> References: <1453911849-16562-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <56D42CE5.5000901@intel.com> <56D4618E.4090101@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:29:27 -0000 2016-02-29 17:19, Panu Matilainen: > On 02/29/2016 01:35 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > On 2/29/2016 11:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon 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. > >> > > Hi Thomas, > > > > It is great to have some discussion and feedbacks. > > But I doubt not merging in this release will help to have more discussion. > > > > It is better to have them in this release and let people experiment it, > > this gives more chance to better discussion. > > > > These features are replacement of KNI, and KNI is not intended to be > > removed in this release, so who are using KNI as solution can continue > > to use KNI and can test KCP/KDP, so that we can get more feedbacks. > > So make the work available from a separate git repo and make it easy for > people to experiment with it. Code doesn't have to be in a release for > the sake of experimenting, and removing code is much harder than not > adding it in the first place, witness KNI. Good idea. What about a -next tree to experiment on kernel interactions?