Fine if this is going to stay out of vpp repo, as it is duplicate functionality and also it will make dpdk plugin more messy due to external dependencies on musdk. Will be better to do that work with some NIC which have native DPDK drivers, not wrapper like in musdk case...
-- Damjan > On 17 May 2018, at 14:09, Nitin Saxena <nitin.sax...@cavium.com> wrote: > > Hi Damjan, > > This request was discussed in FD.io ARM call in order to optimize dpdk-input > node for ARM platforms. Macchiatobin is one common platform where almost all > ARM stakeholders are working on and profiling data/details can be easily > shared among them. > > Thanks, > Nitin > > On Wednesday 16 May 2018 11:37 PM, Damjan Marion wrote: >> Hi Natalie, >> Who requested that? >> Thanks, >> -- >> Damjan >>> On 16 May 2018, at 15:33, Natalie Samsonov <nsams...@marvell.com >>> <mailto:nsams...@marvell.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Damjan, >>> As I understood, it was a request to use DPDK plugin with all platforms and >>> I was asked to upstream Marvell DPDK plugin. >>> Best Regards, >>> Natalie >>> *From:*Damjan Marion [mailto:dmarion.li...@gmail.com] >>> *Sent:*Wednesday, May 16, 2018 16:03 >>> *To:*Natalie Samsonov <nsams...@marvell.com <mailto:nsams...@marvell.com>> >>> *Cc:*Tina Tsou <tina.t...@arm.com >>> <mailto:tina.t...@arm.com>>;vpp-dev@lists.fd.io >>> <mailto:vpp-dev@lists.fd.io>; Maen Suleiman <m...@marvell.com >>> <mailto:m...@marvell.com>> >>> *Subject:*[EXT] Re: [vpp-dev] Marvell's AI from last call >>> External Email >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Dear Natalie, >>> What is the point of using DPDK marvel driver (which is actually just a >>> wrapper around musdk) if we already have native musdk support in vpp? >>> -- >>> Damjan >>> >>> >>> On 15 May 2018, at 08:48, Natalie Samsonov <nsams...@marvell.com >>> <mailto:nsams...@marvell.com>> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> 1.We are working now on upstreaming Marvell’s PMD support in VPP >>> DPDK plugin. >>> I’m attaching the patch as well in case you want play with it. >>> 2.Regarding the L3FWD performance difference between MUSDK and >>> DPDK, currently we don’t have numbers with VPP L3FW. >>> We only have the numbers with two different applications. One is >>> our own L3FW application running on top of MUSDK and other is a >>> standard DPDL L3FWD application, so it’s not a fair comparison. >>> Best Regards, >>> Natalie Samsonov >>> <0001-plugins-dpdk-Add-support-for-net_mrvl-dpdk-driver.patch> >>
