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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 07:54:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOaVG178NA5CziT1hKScmghdbiQe25ESbTWJiDZtATkJxDXFxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0CJ8kZwfxT_yzu8NuLgtYpCBEekN=NQMNdS4R18rmk-w12-w@mail.gmail.com>

Porting Linux stack to DPDK opens up a licensing can of worms.
Linux code is GPLv2, and DPDK code is BSD. Any combination of the two would
end up
being covered by the Linux GPLv2 license.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated with
> DPDK,  the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published (and
> announced) within few days.
> Regards,
> Vadim
> On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
> > > I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack is
> > based
> > > on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster to
> > > forwarding packets.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any L4
> > purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress.
> >
> > You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with
> > https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about behavior
> /
> > performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious if you can
> give
> > some more comments.
> >
> > I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not using
> > BSD
> > standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have.
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-09 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-09  0:49 zimeiw
2014-09-09  6:20 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09  6:30   ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09  6:30   ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09  6:38     ` Zhang, Helin
2014-09-09  6:42       ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09  6:47         ` Zhang, Helin
2014-09-09  6:58           ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 12:16             ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 15:00               ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09 20:17                 ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 20:51                 ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 21:30                   ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 21:59                     ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09 22:47                       ` Alexander Nasonov
2014-09-09 14:54     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-09-09 15:19       ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 15:26         ` Jim Thompson
2014-09-09 15:59           ` Vadim Suraev
2014-09-09 20:47       ` Matthew Hall
2014-09-09  7:30   ` zimeiw
2014-09-09 16:09 ` Jeff Shaw
2014-09-09 21:49   ` Aaro Koskinen
2014-09-10  3:42     ` zimeiw

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