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From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Can xenvirt pmd work in xen guest (aka DomU) without
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:14:05 +0800
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> for me, the most important thing at the moment, is to run our system 
> on xen guest (aka DomU), with the full functions. the performance 
> could be a secondary consideration.
> most of time, for our guests,  full functions, with the 
> acceptable performance, is  fine.
> do we have plan to support xen netfront pmd in dpdk ?
> in my humble opinion,  limited performance is better than "not work" .

If you only care about the functionality, you can try AF_PACKET or pcap PMD.

Thanks,
Jianfeng