From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA728D89 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:58:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 176788E22D; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 14:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sopuli.koti.laiskiainen.org (vpn1-6-72.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.6.72]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id tB1Ew8d7021919; Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:58:09 -0500 To: Vincent JARDIN , Bruce Richardson , Stephen Hemminger References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA674705F1@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <20151130171655.70e4ce25@xeon-e3> <20151201100333.GA32252@bricha3-MOBL3> <565DAE6E.5040102@redhat.com> <565DB356.9060602@6wind.com> From: Panu Matilainen Message-ID: <565DB580.9090209@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:58:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <565DB356.9060602@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 2.3 Roadmap 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: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 14:58:11 -0000 On 12/01/2015 04:48 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > On 01/12/2015 15:27, Panu Matilainen wrote: >> The problem with that (unless I'm missing something here) is that KNI >> requires using out-of-tree kernel modules which makes it pretty much a >> non-option for distros. > > It works fine with some distros. I do not think it should be an argument. Its not a question of *working*, its that out-of-tree kernel modules are considered unsupportable by the kernel people. So relying on KNI would make the otherwise important and desireable tcpdump feature non-existent on at least Fedora and RHEL where such modules are practically outright banned by distro policies. - Panu -