2015-06-10 14:07, Bruce Richardson: > Following on from the feedback received from the community about the pktdev > idea, > I've decided not to push this approach further for DPDK 2.1. > > Instead, for future releases, I'll look at taking some of what was > investigated in > this work and see if it can be applied to the existing ethdev library, which > seems > to be the favoured point of convergence in the community. Hopefully, we can > get > ethdev to meet all the requirements I had looked for for pktdev. [If not, I > may > need to come back to look at this again, but I hope not! :-)]
Maybe we should start removing some things from ethdev. There are some functions or structures which are specific to some devices only. Why not include a header from the driver when we want to use a specific feature of this driver? Examples: ixgbe bypass mode, ixgbe queue stats mapping, Rx/Tx thresholds tuning...
