From: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
To: HS <hyunseok@ieee.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Ethtool support in DPDK pmd
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 13:37:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602203735.GL8384@x220.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAJNysKzUt1KtzQVj0_rQtDPBfjKi=jYmyb57xU3OxdAS1wE3A@mail.gmail.com>
* HS (hyunseok@ieee.org) wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Sure KNI can offer ethtool interface. But suppose I am already running a
> DPDK application on a physical port, but at the same time I want to control
> the port with ethtool like interface. How could I do that?
HS, I might be missing something there, but with the current model of
usermode device drivers I don't think this is simple.
If drivers stayed in kernel and kernel drivers exposed a mechansim for
registering application dma buffers for dpdk apps, then ethtool would
simply work as-is.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-02 16:31 HS
2014-06-02 16:37 ` Jayakumar, Muthurajan
2014-06-02 20:18 ` HS
2014-06-02 20:37 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2014-06-02 21:35 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-03 0:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
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