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From: "Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
	"Lu, Xiuchun" <xiuchun.lu@intel.com>,
	"Li, Miao" <miao.li@intel.com>,
	"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
	"techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce emudev library and iavf emudev driver
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:35:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR11MB406336AB5B07C152E88FCA919CA80@MN2PR11MB4063.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3929200.M8Uy5f1AHv@thomas>

Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:52 AM
> To: Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; david.marchand@redhat.com; stephen@networkplumber.org; Liang,
> Cunming <cunming.liang@intel.com>; Lu, Xiuchun <xiuchun.lu@intel.com>; Li,
> Miao <miao.li@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>;
> techboard@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce emudev library and iavf
> emudev driver
> 
> 19/12/2020 07:27, Chenbo Xia:
> > This series introduces a new device abstraction called emudev for emulated
> > devices. A new library (librte_emudev) is implemented. The first emudev
> > driver is also introduced, which emulates Intel Adaptive Virtual Function
> > (iavf) as a software network device.
> >
> > This series has a dependency on librte_vfio_user patch series:
> > http://patchwork.dpdk.org/cover/85389/
> >
> > Background & Motivation
> > -----------------------
> > The disaggregated/multi-process QEMU is using VFIO-over-socket/vfio-user
> > as the main transport mechanism to disaggregate IO services from QEMU.
> > Therefore, librte_vfio_user is introduced in DPDK to accommodate
> > emulated devices for high performance I/O. Although vfio-user library
> > provides possibility of emulating devices in DPDK, DPDK does not have
> > a device abstraction for emulated devices. A good device abstraction will
> > be useful for applications or high performance data path driver. With
> > this consideration, emudev library is designed and implemented. It also
> > make it possbile to keep modular design on emulated devices by implementing
> > data path related logic in a standalone driver (e.g., an ethdev driver)
> > and keeps the unrelated logic in the emudev driver.
> 
> 
> As voted today in the Technical Board meeting,
> there will be a draft repository to host this initiative.
> A proposed name for the git tree is:
> 	dpdk-draft-emudev
> Feel free to propose a better name.

This works fine.

> 
> This series cannot be merged in the main repository
> until the Qemu specification is made official.
> When Qemu part will be complete, we can assume more reviews
> of the DPDK related code.

OK.

> In the meantime, the draft repository will help getting interest,
> testing, reviews and opinions.

Thanks for doing this 😊

Cheers,
Chenbo

> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18  7:47 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-07  7:18   ` Xing, Beilei
2021-01-07  8:41     ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  7:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-18  9:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " David Marchand
2020-12-19  6:11   ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-21  9:52     ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-21 12:01       ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-22  3:09         ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-22  8:48           ` Maxime Coquelin
2020-12-23  5:28             ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19  6:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-04  6:45     ` Wu, Jingjing
2021-01-05  1:26       ` Xia, Chenbo
2021-01-05 13:41     ` Wu, Jingjing
2021-01-06  7:41       ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2020-12-29  6:05     ` Wu, Jingjing
2020-12-30  1:59       ` Xia, Chenbo
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2020-12-19  6:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2021-01-13 16:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-14  1:35     ` Xia, Chenbo [this message]
2021-01-14  6:25   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/8] lib: introduce emudev library Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/8] doc: add emudev library guide Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/8] emu: introduce emulated iavf driver Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/8] emu/iavf: add vfio-user device register and unregister Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] emu/iavf: add resource management and internal logic of iavf Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/8] emu/iavf: add emudev operations to fit in emudev framework Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/8] test/emudev: introduce functional test Chenbo Xia
2021-01-14  6:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/8] doc: update release notes for iavf emudev driver Chenbo Xia
2024-02-12 22:49     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce emudev library and " Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-14 19:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Stephen Hemminger

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