Hi Florin,

What's difference between ldp and direct vcl ? I mean in terms of use cases

Thanks and Regards
Venu

On Tue, 8 Dec, 2020, 8:47 pm Florin Coras, <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Venu,
>
> Those are used for ldp tests. That is, they use normal sockets which go
> through our ldp (LD_PRELOAD) shim and eventually through vcl.
> vcl_test_client and vcl_test_server are the tests that use vcl directly.
>
> Regards,
> Florin
>
> On Dec 8, 2020, at 2:11 AM, Venumadhav Josyula <vjosy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Florin,
>
> The below are vcl based, my understanding it is based normal sockets
> build-root/rpmbuild/vpp-21.01/src/plugins/hs_apps/vcl/sock_test.h
> build-root/rpmbuild/vpp-21.01/src/plugins/hs_apps/vcl/sock_test_client.c
> build-root/rpmbuild/vpp-21.01/src/plugins/hs_apps/vcl/sock_test_server.c
> These files use normal socket(s) right now VCL
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Venu
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 01:07, Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Venu,
>>
>> You’ll find documentation regarding the host stack in general and vcl in
>> particular here [1] (see for instance [2]). As for code examples, check
>> here [3] the vcl test client/server apps.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Florin
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/HostStack
>> [2] https://wiki.fd.io/images/9/9c/Vpp-hoststack-kc-eu19.pdf
>> [3] https://git.fd.io/vpp/tree/src/plugins/hs_apps/vcl
>>
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2020, at 11:24 AM, Venumadhav Josyula <vjosy...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Florin,
>>
>> This is nothing to do with the subject being discussed.
>>
>> Can you please direct me to the following
>> i) example(s) of VCL ?
>> ii) Any tutorial explaining the working of VCL ?
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Venu
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 01:28, Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ravi,
>>>
>>> VCL is not part of the vpp app/process, it’s a library that applications
>>> can link against to be able to interact with the session layer in a more
>>> posix-like manner. So if your app needs a binary api connection to vpp, it
>>> needs to set it up independent of vcl.
>>>
>>> With regard to the “vpe-api” region, it’s worth nothing that the binary
>>> api can work over two “transports”. Namely:
>>>
>>> 1) posix shared memory, and this is the one that relies on the vpe-api
>>> region for bootstrapping and
>>> 2) an af_unix socket which is configurable in startup.conf, i.e., by
>>> doing something like socksvr { socket-name <filename> }.
>>>
>>> This is somewhat further complicated by the fact that a binary api
>>> connection bootstrapped over a socket (option 2) can be switched to a
>>> shared memory transport. Although similar to option1, in this case, the
>>> memory is allocated and negotiated per binary api client using memfds and
>>> the socket. This is what VCL uses underneath if configured to use the
>>> binary api with the socket transport.
>>>
>>> Previously, VCL could also be configured to use option 1, but support
>>> for this has been recently dropped.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Florin
>>>
>>> On Dec 3, 2020, at 7:22 AM, RaviKiran Veldanda <ravi.jup...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Florin,
>>> Thanks for your response, however I have a question, If I want to use
>>> another Binary API initialization do we need to do at our Application or in
>>> VPP code.
>>> When I check VPP source code, the initialization always with "vpe-api"
>>> vpe_api_init calls always vl_set_memory_region_name ("/vpe-api"); so
>>> wondering do we have any other region present?
>>>
>>> FYI: We are using 20.05 stable version.
>>> Regards,
>>> Ravi.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>
>>
>>
>
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