On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:53 AM Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> wrote:
> > 2) Based on our experience, NPU HW accelerates are so different than one > > vendor to another vendor. Going forward, We believe, API abstraction may > > not be enough abstract the difference in HW. The Vendor-specific nodes can > > abstract the HW differences and reuse generic the nodes as needed. > > This would help both the silicon vendors and DPDK end users. > If you are proposing this as a new way to provide HW abstractions, then we > will be restricting the application programming model to follow graph > subsystem. IMO, the HW abstractions should be available irrespective of the > programming model. > Graph model of packet processing might not be applicable for all use cases. No, I am not proposing this is the new way to provide HW abstraction in DPDK. API based HW abstraction will continue as it was done earlier.
