From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A001A2BB9 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:31:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A5920849; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 03:31:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:31:24 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=RC/6rishqibBOwY 5w/IoJcZzw2+6xRRHCkG7Mzmb9ug=; b=jmr4TFokCnucWI0xKjzobU9OGihF2ny RJfD8n26mBorbeomr2lfQD8DiPQJa8dlTXY8FRWtUaYgLPGCkeTXookQakoWq4ST NdtfROKavgesdjNU2zG0cbj3GmYCF6XPcJ/ctCIVrIpKa9VTHdUTdaUefYTRx1vZ zhNZ4gbwd+W4= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=RC/6rishqibBOwY5w/IoJcZzw2+6xRRHCkG7Mzmb9ug=; b=r1vTdYx3 SKOen6P5+v0qIMXetRG9jHa5mn74L/6pmFFlIRfamcHO5vEEkLIKzLzZmb5pEAJq +HdiI/RzTrU+4qCPahsuz6nMdlfofx26UsMREGzwo1OfirUfK+j0bobrqPCfdHEU 3q/XQ9iuovPYSm2dCv0KKfZxmIzq1IWVsr2GkO8+JvE+wibHPbmrgRo1GTJhKsLD //470gRqsDoX048ZONb7nsvIDxpYajeMiyasoRXeRMI+Xbd2PJHVKHxB9iH4+M5/ amqYOiIHxME8rWRR06oX4CvAew23bPSKtHBU53YP7ywIakD2EAoQsGHiyFPFqktc qy6caQjH7VCbCw== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: wo5kpbCKBPfaqTxbyehcOtSZcB5kHMl9wuzloQUUlj2k 1496907083 Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EEB757E7EE; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 03:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Gaetan Rivet Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:31:23 +0200 Message-ID: <34816509.TmcHNXKEUC@xps> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce net bus X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:31:24 -0000 08/06/2017 02:00, Gaetan Rivet: > This new bus takes as devices kernel netdevices. > It offers an API for drivers to register a translation layer that would > transform the netdev name to one their regular PMD would be able to > probe. > > This is PoC. It currently only works for MLX4 and MLX5 PMDs as they were > bifurcated and had very little work to do otherwise. > > The planned feature is for at least all PCI drivers, be able to unbind > the device from its kmod and bind it to a choosen IO module, prior to > probing. > > Additional possible feature would be a close integration with eventually > NCI-like lib, to transparently capture kernel devices, keep a control > interface present and bind / unbind the underlying hardware function as > necessary. I'm sorry, I do not understand the description. Please start with a real problem statement and explain how it is solved. Thanks