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

Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-11T15:03:58Z

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:34:39 +0000
Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com> wrote:

> > 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.
But names are totally abitrary