RE: [RFC 0/8] ioring: network driver

Konstantin Ananyev
2024-12-12T19:06:28Z

> > > This is first draft of new simplified TAP device that uses
> > > the Linux kernel ioring API to provide a read/write ring
> > > with kernel.
> > >
> > > This is split from tap device because there are so many
> > > unnecessary things in existing tap, and supporting ioring is
> > > better without ifdefs etc. The default name of the tap
> > > device is different that other uses in DPDK but the driver
> > > tries to keep the same relevant devargs as before.
> > >
> > > This driver will only provide features that match what kernel
> > > does, so no flow support etc. The next version will add checksum
> > > and multi-segment packets. Some of the doc files may need update
> > > as well.
> >
> > Makes sense to me, though didn't properly look inside.
> > One thing - probably add a 'tap' into the name,
> > 'tap_ioiring' or so, otherwise 'ioring' is a bit too generic
> > and might be confusing.
>
> There are some userspaces that look for "e*" in name for some setups.

Didn't get you here, pls try to re-phrase.

> But names are totally abitrary