2014-07-10 16:32, John W. Linville: > This is a Linux-specific virtual PMD driver backed by an AF_PACKET > socket. This implementation uses mmap'ed ring buffers to limit copying > and user/kernel transitions. The PACKET_FANOUT_HASH behavior of > AF_PACKET is used for frame reception. In the current implementation, > Tx and Rx queues are always paired, and therefore are always equal > in number -- changing this would be a Simple Matter Of Programming. > > Interfaces of this type are created with a command line option like > "--vdev=eth_packet0,iface=...". There are a number of options availabe > as arguments: > > - Interface is chosen by "iface" (required) > - Number of queue pairs set by "qpairs" (optional, default: 16) > - AF_PACKET MMAP block size set by "blocksz" (optional, default: 4096) > - AF_PACKET MMAP frame size set by "framesz" (optional, default: 2048) > - AF_PACKET MMAP frame count set by "framecnt" (optional, default: 512) > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> > --- > This PMD is intended to provide a means for using DPDK on a broad > range of hardware without hardware-specific PMDs and (hopefully) > with better performance than what PCAP offers in Linux. This might > be useful as a development platform for DPDK applications when > DPDK-supported hardware is expensive or unavailable.
Thank you for this nice work. I think it would be well suited to host this PMD as an external one in order to make it work also with DPDK 1.7.0. -- Thomas