Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:34 PM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:19:05 +0530 > Jerin Jacob wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger > > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:41:00 +0100 > > > Andrzej Ostruszka wrote: > > > > > > > What is this useful

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
On 4/16/20 7:04 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:19:05 +0530 > Jerin Jacob wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger >> wrote: [...] >>> Has anyone investigated solving this in the kernel rather than >>> creating the added overhead of more Linux devices?

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:12:07 + "Andrzej Ostruszka [C]" wrote: > On 4/16/20 6:49 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger > > wrote: > [...] > >> Has anyone investigated solving this in the kernel rather than > >> creating the added overhead of more Linux

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
On 4/16/20 6:49 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger > wrote: [...] >> Has anyone investigated solving this in the kernel rather than >> creating the added overhead of more Linux devices? >> >> What I am thinking of is a netlink to userspace interface. >> The

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:19:05 +0530 Jerin Jacob wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:41:00 +0100 > > Andrzej Ostruszka wrote: > > > > > What is this useful for > > > === > > > > > > Usually, when an ethernet port

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:41 PM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:41:00 +0100 > Andrzej Ostruszka wrote: > > > What is this useful for > > === > > > > Usually, when an ethernet port is assigned to DPDK it vanishes from the > > system and user looses ability to

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-04-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:41:00 +0100 Andrzej Ostruszka wrote: > What is this useful for > === > > Usually, when an ethernet port is assigned to DPDK it vanishes from the > system and user looses ability to control it via normal configuration > utilities (e.g. those from iproute2

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-03-06 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka
My apologies - I have forgotten to run checkpatch on the series. I will correct these in version 2 - in the mean time please skip these minor faults and comment on the rest. With regards Andrzej Ostruszka

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Introduce IF proxy library

2020-03-06 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka
What is this useful for === Usually, when an ethernet port is assigned to DPDK it vanishes from the system and user looses ability to control it via normal configuration utilities (e.g. those from iproute2 package). Moreover by default DPDK application is not aware of the netw