Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce virtual PMD for Hyper-V/Azure platforms

2017-12-23 Thread Thomas Monjalon
23/12/2017 03:06, Stephen Hemminger: > Why does this need to be a PMD? It needs to be a driver on top of buses. > Maybe we need some platform infrastructure? What would be such infrastructure? A new driver type? Something like drivers/platform/? I am not sure it is required for this driver give

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce virtual PMD for Hyper-V/Azure platforms

2017-12-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Why does this need to be a PMD? Maybe we need some platform infrastructure? My definition of PMD is it can send and receive On Dec 22, 2017 10:01, "Adrien Mazarguil" wrote: > Virtual machines hosted by Hyper-V/Azure platforms are fitted with > simplified virtual network devices named NetVSC that

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce virtual PMD for Hyper-V/Azure platforms

2017-12-22 Thread Adrien Mazarguil
Virtual machines hosted by Hyper-V/Azure platforms are fitted with simplified virtual network devices named NetVSC that are used for fast communication between VM to VM, VM to hypervisor, and the outside. They appear as standard system netdevices to user-land applications, the main difference bein