> On Jul 11, 2018, at 6:38 AM, Dave Barach via Lists.Fd.Io
> wrote:
>
> In short, the kernel is simply not involved in packet processing.
>
... unless you’re running netmap, and even then, you don’t take the described
ctx switch hit or “copy” hit.
The kernel does run the driver(s) in netma
What you wrote is not correct.
DPDK drivers run in user-mode, as part of the vpp executable. To a first
approximation: device drivers use the uio_pci_generic kernel module to map
device registers into user-space. Once that happens, user-mode device drivers –
either dpdk or vpp native – manipula
