Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] Wind River Systems AVP PMD

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 3/29/2017 11:44 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
> Le 28/03/2017 à 13:53, Allain Legacy a écrit :
>> This patch series submits an initial version of the AVP PMD from Wind River
>> Systems.  The series includes shared header files, driver implementation,
>> and changes to documentation files in support of this new driver.  The AVP
>> driver is a shared memory based device.  It is intended to be used as a PMD
>> within a virtual machine running on a Wind River virtualization platform.
>> See: http://www.windriver.com/products/titanium-cloud/
>>
>> It enables optimized packet throughput without requiring any packet
>> processing in qemu. This allowed us to provide our customers with a
>> significant performance increase for both DPDK and non-DPDK applications
>> in the VM.   Since our AVP implementation supports VM live-migration it
>> is viewed as a better alternative to PCI passthrough or PCI SRIOV since
>> neither of those support VM live-migration without manual intervention
>> or significant performance penalties.
>>
>> Since the initial implementation of AVP devices, vhost-user has become part
>> of the qemu offering with a significant performance increase over the
>> original virtio implementation.  However, vhost-user still does not achieve
>> the level of performance that the AVP device can provide to our customers
>> for DPDK based guests.
>>
>> A number of our customers have requested that we upstream the driver to
>> dpdk.org.
> 
> Acked-by: vincent.jardin@6wind.com

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.