From: Aws Ismail <aws.ismail@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, DPDK <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] KNI discussion in userspace event
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 11:49:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMHMu0NZDRHg2ZPXVSJyi8iaBmg_FyLB_H+5h5o6RSVeQDrXaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161028092525.696652d4@xeon-e3>
Hi Stephen, Ferruh,
As an end-user take on this (hence community comment) :), this ties into
the rte_eth_tap that Keith sent out and it has been acked and reviewed, So
I am trying to see the pros/cons of using this (kni pmd) vs. the tun/tap
PMD [1].
Previously, we were using Ferruh's KDP/KCP patches and those served our
purpose, but since the KDP/KCP idea has been rejected as yet another set of
out-of-tree kernel modules to maintain, it has not gotten much attention
since then.
We are hoping that tun/tap would be the way to go just because it looks
simple and easy to manage from a user app perspective.
Having said that, I am not sure what to make of this KNI PMD given
Stephen's comments. Could any one comment about the overall direction of
which solution to focus on? (tun/tap PMD or KNI pmd)?
[1]: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/16566/ (Keith's tun/tap PMD)
Thanks.
Aws\
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:31:50 +0100
> Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > Discussed alternatives were:
> > * Tun/Tap
> > This won't be as fast as KNI and performance is an issue.
>
>
> That is a myth. Both require the some number of copies.
> TUN/TAP copies is a syscall and KNI copies is a kthread.
> Actually, the KNI method is worse because it has kernel thread
> always running chewing a CPU. I.e it is pure poll mode.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-28 14:31 Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-28 15:03 ` Igor Ryzhov
2016-10-28 15:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-28 15:51 ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-10-28 16:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-28 17:29 ` Igor Ryzhov
2016-10-28 18:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-28 19:23 ` Igor Ryzhov
2016-10-28 23:09 ` Vincent Jardin
2016-10-28 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-11-23 16:49 ` Aws Ismail [this message]
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