From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25EF11D4; Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:05:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 13 Feb 2017 02:05:38 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.35,156,1484035200"; d="scan'208";a="224613408" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.137]) ([10.237.220.137]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Feb 2017 02:05:37 -0800 To: "Netala, Sameera" , "users@dpdk.org" , DPDK References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <797b7a41-b292-5720-2535-6e78e2df7af3@intel.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:05:36 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Is PF-only driver allowed to upstream into dpdk? X-BeenThere: users@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK usage discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:05:40 -0000 On 2/13/2017 9:43 AM, Netala, Sameera wrote: > Hi, Hi Sameera, > > 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. Can you please give more information about hardware? Is this an offload engine? > > 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. Thanks, ferruh > > Thanks, > Sameera >