Also does either are independent or require vpp host stack ? Thanks and regards Venu
On Tue, 8 Dec, 2020, 9:13 pm Venumadhav Josyula, <vjosy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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