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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce net bus
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:31:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34816509.TmcHNXKEUC@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1496877142.git.gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>

08/06/2017 02:00, Gaetan Rivet:
> This new bus takes as devices kernel netdevices.
> It offers an API for drivers to register a translation layer that would
> transform the netdev name to one their regular PMD would be able to
> probe.
> 
> This is PoC. It currently only works for MLX4 and MLX5 PMDs as they were
> bifurcated and had very little work to do otherwise.
> 
> The planned feature is for at least all PCI drivers, be able to unbind
> the device from its kmod and bind it to a choosen IO module, prior to
> probing.
> 
> Additional possible feature would be a close integration with eventually
> NCI-like lib, to transparently capture kernel devices, keep a control
> interface present and bind / unbind the underlying hardware function as
> necessary.

I'm sorry, I do not understand the description.
Please start with a real problem statement and explain how it is solved.
Thanks

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-08  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 10:44 [PATCH 0/3] Introduce net bus Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-01 10:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] bus/net: introduce " Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-01 10:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/mlx4: net bus support Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-01 10:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] net/mlx5: " Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  0:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce net bus Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  0:00   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] bus/net: introduce " Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  0:00   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] bus/net: implement hotplug bus operations Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  0:01   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] net/mlx4: net bus support Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  0:01   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net/mlx5: " Gaetan Rivet
2017-06-08  7:31   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-06-08 20:31     ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce net bus Gaëtan Rivet

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