> On 20 Sep 2018, at 20:27, Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to use virtio_user as an exception path with DPDK?
> 
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-17.11/howto/virtio_user_as_exceptional_path.html
> 
> Testing simple case, I see much better performance with this when forwarding
> a 10G device to kernel.
> 
>               Rx              Tx
>       KNI     3.2 Gbit/sec    1.3 Gbit/sec
>       TAP     4.9             4.7
>       Virtio  5.6             8.6
> 
> Maybe a VPP plugin is needed.

Isn't that what we have in our new TAP code? TAP with vhost-net backend?

https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c 
<https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/vnet/devices/tap/tap.c>


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