From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
To: Sameera.Netala@cavium.com
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>,
"Fastabend, John R" <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Is PF-only driver allowed to upstream into dpdk?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 23:14:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <278979a8-80c9-0f24-7aba-f92117235e77@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18142536.l3p9GNq4yZ@xps13>
>> I am currently working on a non-nic mode user space PCI driver
>> which processes custom packets from OCTEON 7xxx processor. As
>> per the requirements, DPDK is the best way to achieve this.
>>
>> Though I have seen few designs and sources that talk about dpdk
>> pf drivers, I am interested to know if such a driver with pf-only
>> support and which doesn't involve virtual functions will be allowed
>> to upstream into DPDK sources.
> There is no problem with PF only drivers, and there are already samples
> of it in the project.
>
> As long as driver is open source and for data path, it is good for
> upstream. Please feel free to upstream your driver when it is ready.
>
> The discussion about DPDK PF drivers was about if DPDK PF driver should
> be in control path or not, this is high level project scope discussion.
It is about diverging with the Linux kernel's PF. It is not acceptable,
from a VF point of view to have different behaviors.
Then, about this specific request regarding Octeon's PF, your
description is not clear enough to comment deeply about it.
Best regards,
Vincent
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2017-02-13 22:14 ` Vincent JARDIN [this message]
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2017-02-13 9:43 ` Netala, Sameera
2017-02-13 10:05 ` Ferruh Yigit
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