From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH-v3 0/6] pktdev update Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:26:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3428582.RNB743KV0R@xps13> References: <20150519113112.GA10700@bricha3-MOBL3> <1433941641-19405-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Bruce Richardson Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CF8C30A for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:27:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wibdq8 with SMTP id dq8so47451593wib.1 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 06:27:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1433941641-19405-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> 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" 2015-06-10 14:07, Bruce Richardson: > Following on from the feedback received from the community about the pktdev idea, > I've decided not to push this approach further for DPDK 2.1. > > Instead, for future releases, I'll look at taking some of what was investigated in > this work and see if it can be applied to the existing ethdev library, which seems > to be the favoured point of convergence in the community. Hopefully, we can get > ethdev to meet all the requirements I had looked for for pktdev. [If not, I may > need to come back to look at this again, but I hope not! :-)] Maybe we should start removing some things from ethdev. There are some functions or structures which are specific to some devices only. Why not include a header from the driver when we want to use a specific feature of this driver? Examples: ixgbe bypass mode, ixgbe queue stats mapping, Rx/Tx thresholds tuning...