From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: 17.02 Roadmap Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:39:45 +0200 Message-ID: <2505534.SgWeeuPujD@xps13> References: <26FA93C7ED1EAA44AB77D62FBE1D27BA675F11C5@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com> <1998191.9HGrB6oKr3@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: "O'Driscoll, Tim" , dev@dpdk.org To: "Hunt, David" Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f171.google.com (mail-yw0-f171.google.com [209.85.161.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6166CC2 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:39:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-yw0-f171.google.com with SMTP id t193so55236344ywc.2 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 07:39:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2016-10-13 15:18, Hunt, David: > Hi Thomas, > > On 10/10/2016 9:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2016-10-10 16:13, O'Driscoll, Tim: > >> Packet Distributor Enhancements: Enhancements will be made to the Packet Distributor library to improve performance: > >> 1. Introduce burst functionality to allow batches of packets to be sent to workers. > >> 2. Improve the performance of the flow/core affinity through the use of SSE/AVX instructions. > > > > The packet distributor looks more and more like a DPDK application > > at the same level of BESS, VPP, OVS, etc. > > Lets discuss this further. Would you see other libraries heading in > this direction also (reorder, acl, hash, etc)? Not so easy to put things in a category. > Do you think it would be an idea to add as an item of discussion for the > technical steering group when we're all at Userspace next week? If others are interested to discuss about libraries categories and growth, yes I'll jump in.