From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from alln-iport-7.cisco.com (alln-iport-7.cisco.com [173.37.142.94]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DAADE0 for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 07:07:20 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cisco.com; i=@cisco.com; l=781; q=dns/txt; s=iport; t=1401340052; x=1402549652; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:references:in-reply-to: content-id:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; bh=x6smXosg8l+nL167DMUJz8qzSNzb6D4pK7myAD02cN0=; b=NSWa2BwibG1Of41FrQd5OcDuQtl7d7ObxYB2pWr4DzgvJyctpJIndYnT xvj0KaQvQS8xVEMeXmsg1c19YCGRIDJDGk+jQEpOZqSjXmt6de0vDaAGI 9juLKEkKFn3ziGZsAPPWnlmjpyhSgxx9iLd8/nbm9rXB/ckJWBvEtEbng I=; X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjEFANa/hlOtJA2J/2dsb2JhbABZgwdSWMI9AYETFnSCJgEBBIEJAgEIRjIlAgQBEohCDddsF4tDAYMQBYRABIlokA2BPZFrgziCLw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,932,1392163200"; d="scan'208";a="48188286" Received: from alln-core-4.cisco.com ([173.36.13.137]) by alln-iport-7.cisco.com with ESMTP; 29 May 2014 05:07:30 +0000 Received: from xhc-aln-x15.cisco.com (xhc-aln-x15.cisco.com [173.36.12.89]) by alln-core-4.cisco.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s4T57VYd012123 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Thu, 29 May 2014 05:07:31 GMT Received: from xmb-aln-x07.cisco.com ([169.254.2.114]) by xhc-aln-x15.cisco.com ([173.36.12.89]) with mapi id 14.03.0123.003; Thu, 29 May 2014 00:07:30 -0500 From: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" To: "Burakov, Anatoly" , "dev@dpdk.org" Thread-Topic: PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission Thread-Index: AQHPejrf8Mi9HRIfxUi+UALiX6ru45tVrxEAgAIESQA= Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 05:07:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.3.9.131030 x-originating-ip: [173.39.25.68] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission 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: Thu, 29 May 2014 05:07:20 -0000 Thank you Anatoly ! I=B9ll take a look at it and get back in case of questions. -Sujith On 28/05/14 2:22 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" wrote: >Hi Sujith, > >> One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO. Hope >> this is acceptable. The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this >>decision. >> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html > >You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native >support for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits >your purposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to >simplify your code. > >[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html > >Best regards, >Anatoly Burakov >DPDK SW Engineer > > >