[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-17 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi Alejandro, thanks for the heads up - to make sure I got your correctly I assume you refer to: [1]: dpdk: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=e61512e4066740847ced4a85ee9c3334b511468f [2]: kernel: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=033291eccbdb [3]:

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-15 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi, > > 2016-02-10 19:05, Seth Arnold: > > I've taken some notes while reading the sources; I'm sharing them in the > > hopes that it's useful: on the one hand my fresh eyes may spot things > that > > you've overlooked, on the other hand

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-11 Thread Alejandro Lucero
Hi Seth, I do not know if you and Ubuntu know about the kernel VFIO no-iommu mode which DPDK will use in the future (then getting rid of UIO drives). This implies distributions enabling that kernel VFIO mode which is not enable by default as it is a security issue. It would be good to know

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, On 02/11/2016 02:58 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-02-10 19:05, Seth Arnold: > [...] >> It's nearly impossible to solve issues without error reporting. Good >> error reporting saves admins time and money. > > Until now, the errors were reported on the list and most often fixed

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-11 Thread Thomas Monjalon
Hi, 2016-02-10 19:05, Seth Arnold: > I've taken some notes while reading the sources; I'm sharing them in the > hopes that it's useful: on the one hand my fresh eyes may spot things that > you've overlooked, on the other hand your familiarity with the code means > that you're better suited to

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-10 Thread Matthew Hall
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 07:05:40PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > - ixgbe driver in the package is very different from the driver in the > Linux kernel -- when bugs in one are found, who is in charge of copying > the fixes between the two code bases? It's not the Linux driver. It's from BSD

[dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources

2016-02-10 Thread Seth Arnold
Hello, The Ubuntu distribution is looking at supporting DPDK in the 'main' component of the archive. As part of this process I spent a few days reading the DPDK sources to gauge if we can support it or not. I've taken some notes while reading the sources; I'm sharing them in the hopes that it's