Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:39:28 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v12 01/17] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver |
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 7:48 PM Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:26:38 +0100 > Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > > > pointing to skbufs? How are the lifetimes of skbufs managed? How do you get skbufs out of the NIC? Are > > > > you using XDP? > > > > > > This is not a network accelerator in the sense that it does not have > > > direct access to the network sockets/ports. We do not use XDP. > > > > So not using XDP is a problem. I looked at previous versions of this > > patch, and it is all DPDK. But DPDK is not in mainline, XDP is. In > > order for this to be merged into mainline you need a mainline user of > > it. > > > > Maybe you should abandon mainline, and just get this driver merged > > into the DPDK fork of Linux? > > DPDK is all userspace and runs on stock kernels from Debian, Redhat, SUSE, ... > There is no special fork for DPDK.
Appreciate the help Stephen. Netlink and taking this through drivers/net/, where there are other folks that care about DPDK, seems a better fit than drivers/misc/. I'll huddle with Mike after the holidays.
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