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From: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for	AF_PACKET-based virtual devices
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:38:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B0343ACEB1@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4763701.40HJ79Bo5S@xps13>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 9:48 AM
> To: John W. Linville
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-
> based virtual devices
> 
> 2014-07-11 11:30, John W. Linville:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:04:04PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 2014-07-11 10:51, John W. Linville:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > > Thank you for this nice work.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think it would be well suited to host this PMD as an external one in
> > > > > order to make it work also with DPDK 1.7.0.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure I understand the suggestion -- you don't want to merge
> > > > the driver for 1.8?  Or you just want to host this patch somewhere,
> > > > so people can still use it w/ 1.7?
> > >
> > > I suggest to have a separated repository here:
> > > 	http://dpdk.org/browse/
> >
> > I really don't see any reason not to merge it.  It was already delayed
> > by me waiting for all the PMD init changes to settle out in the 1.6
> > release, and I still had to do a few touch-ups for it to compile on
> > 1.7.  I definitely do not want to have to do that over and over again.
> 
> It's a pity that we didn't synchronize our efforts to make it integrated
> during 1.7.0 cycle.
> 
> > Why wouldn't you just merge it?  If someone wants to use it on 1.7,
> > they can just apply the patch.
> 
> I'm OK to merge it. I was only suggesting to host your PMD externally like we
> did for virtio-net-pmd, vmxnet3-usermap and memnic.
> It was the same discussion for the vmxnet3 PMD that Stephen submitted.
> 
> I start thinking that nobody wants PMD to be external. So we may merge this
> one in dpdk.git and start talking what to do for the other ones:
> 	- move memnic in dpdk.git?

Yes, I would agree with this. Having drivers in external git repos makes it hard for us to take them into account when planning on making changes to the core libs.

> 	- move virtio-net-pmd and vmxnet3-usermap where sits their uio
> counterparts?
> 	- merge Brocade's vmxnet3 as new one or as a replacement for
> vmxnet3-uio?

For these we really should try and converge on a single solution. Having multiple vmxnet3 and virtio drivers duplicates effort and is just plain messy! Of course, that's easier to say than to agree on...

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-10 20:32 John W. Linville
2014-07-11 13:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 14:49   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:06     ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:16       ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-11 16:07         ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-07-11 15:29       ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 15:33         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:29           ` Venkatesan, Venky
2014-07-11 13:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 14:51   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 15:04     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 15:30       ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 16:47         ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-11 17:38           ` Richardson, Bruce [this message]
2014-07-11 17:41             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12 11:48           ` Neil Horman
     [not found] ` <D0158A423229094DA7ABF71CF2FA0DA3117D3A23@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2014-07-11 17:20   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 17:40     ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 18:01       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 18:46         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-12  0:42           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-14 13:45             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 19:04       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 19:31         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 20:27           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:31             ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 20:35               ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-11 20:40                 ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:34       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 13:46         ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 21:27           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 12:35             ` Neil Horman
2014-07-16 13:37               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 14:07             ` John W. Linville
2014-07-16 14:26               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-16 15:59                 ` Shaw, Jeffrey B
2014-07-11 22:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-07-14 17:53   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-11 22:51 ` Bruce Richardson
2014-07-14 13:48   ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 17:35     ` John W. Linville
2014-07-14 18:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " John W. Linville
2014-07-15  0:15   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 12:17     ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 14:01       ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 15:40         ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 19:08           ` John W. Linville
2014-07-15 20:31         ` Neil Horman
2014-07-15 20:41           ` Zhou, Danny
2014-07-15 15:34       ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:05   ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 18:31     ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-12 18:54       ` John W. Linville
2014-09-12 20:35         ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 15:09           ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 15:15             ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 15:43             ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-15 16:22               ` Neil Horman
2014-09-15 17:48                 ` John W. Linville
2014-09-15 19:11                   ` Zhou, Danny
2014-09-16 20:16     ` Neil Horman
2014-09-26  9:28       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-09-26 14:08         ` Neil Horman
2014-09-29 10:05           ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-08 15:57             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-08 19:14               ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 10:03                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-13 11:14                   ` Neil Horman
2014-11-13 11:57                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-14  0:42                       ` Neil Horman
2014-11-14 14:45                         ` John W. Linville
2014-11-17 15:57                           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] librte_pmd_af_packet: " John W. Linville
2014-11-24 16:16                             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-17 11:19                       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] librte_pmd_packet: " Neil Horman
2014-11-17 11:22                         ` Thomas Monjalon

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