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Subject: Re: [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:10:55 -0500
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On 23 February 2017 at 03:49, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
wrote:

> 2017-02-20 15:33, Joao Martins:
> > On 02/17/2017 04:07 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
> > >> Le 16/02/2017 =C3=A0 14:36, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk a =C3=A9crit :
> > >>>> Is it time now to officially remove Dom0 support?
> > >>> So we do have an prototype implementation of netback but it is
> waiting
> > >>> for review of xen-devel to the spec.
> > >>>
> > >>> And I believe the implementation does utilize some of the dom0
> > >>> parts of code in DPDK.
> > >>
> > >> Please, do you have URLs/pointers about it? It would be interesting
> to share
> > >> it with DPDK community too.
> > >
> > > Joao, would it be possible to include an tarball of the patches? I kn=
ow
> > > they are no in the right state with the review of the staging
> > > grants API - they are incompatible, but it may help folks to get
> > > a feel for what DPDK APIs you used?
> > OK, see attached - I should note that its a WIP as Konrad noted, but
> once the
> > staging grants work is finished, the code would be improved to have it
> in better
> > shape (as well as in feature parity) for a proper RFC [and adhering to
> the
> > project coding style].
>
> Excuse my ignorance on Xen.
> Is xen-netback for Dom0?
> Is the DPDK Dom0 support working and useful?
>

I'm also curious about Xen support on DPDK, mostly because I'm planning to
run DPDK Apps on Amazon EC2 and they are Xen-based...

So, sorry to ask this here but, how to use DPDK on Amazon EC2 (i.e., on top
of Xen)? Which EC2 flavor / DPDK drivers to use?

Thanks!
Thiago