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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Ximing Chen <mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	arnd@arndb.de, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/20] dlb: introduce DLB device driver
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:02:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEiLI8fGoa9DoCnF@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210210175423.1873-1-mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:54:03AM -0600, Mike Ximing Chen wrote:
> Intel DLB is an accelerator for the event-driven programming model of
> DPDK's Event Device Library[2]. The library is used in packet processing
> pipelines that arrange for multi-core scalability, dynamic load-balancing,
> and variety of packet distribution and synchronization schemes

The more that I look at this driver, the more I think this is a "run
around" the networking stack.  Why are you all adding kernel code to
support DPDK which is an out-of-kernel networking stack?  We can't
support that at all.

Why not just use the normal networking functionality instead of this
custom char-device-node-monstrosity?

What is missing from todays kernel networking code that requires this
run-around?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-10  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-10 17:54 [PATCH v10 00/20] dlb: introduce DLB device driver Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 01/20] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-18  7:34   ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-18  7:52     ` gregkh
2021-02-18 15:37       ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-07 13:59       ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 02/20] dlb: initialize device Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 03/20] dlb: add resource and device initialization Mike Ximing Chen
2021-03-09  9:24   ` Greg KH
2021-03-10  1:33     ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-10  8:13       ` Greg KH
2021-03-10 20:26         ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 04/20] dlb: add device ioctl layer and first three ioctls Mike Ximing Chen
2021-03-09  9:26   ` Greg KH
2021-03-10  1:34     ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 05/20] dlb: add scheduling domain configuration Mike Ximing Chen
2021-03-09  9:28   ` Greg KH
2021-03-10  1:35     ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 06/20] dlb: add domain software reset Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 07/20] dlb: add low-level register reset operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 08/20] dlb: add runtime power-management support Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 09/20] dlb: add queue create, reset, get-depth ioctls Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 10/20] dlb: add register operations for queue management Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 11/20] dlb: add ioctl to configure ports and query poll mode Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 12/20] dlb: add register operations for port management Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 13/20] dlb: add port mmap support Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 14/20] dlb: add start domain ioctl Mike Ximing Chen
2021-03-09  9:29   ` Greg KH
2021-03-10  2:45     ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-10  8:14       ` Greg KH
2021-03-10 20:19         ` Dan Williams
2021-03-10 20:26         ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 15/20] dlb: add queue map, unmap, and pending unmap operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 16/20] dlb: add port map/unmap state machine Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 17/20] dlb: add static queue map register operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 18/20] dlb: add dynamic " Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 19/20] dlb: add queue unmap " Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-10 17:54 ` [PATCH v10 20/20] dlb: queue map/unmap workqueue Mike Ximing Chen
2021-03-10  9:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-03-12  7:18   ` [PATCH v10 00/20] dlb: introduce DLB device driver Dan Williams
2021-03-12 21:55     ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-13  1:39       ` Dan Williams
2021-03-15 20:04         ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-15 20:08         ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-15 20:18         ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-16  9:01           ` Greg KH
2021-05-12 19:07             ` Dan Williams
2021-05-14 14:33               ` Greg KH
2021-07-16  1:04                 ` Chen, Mike Ximing

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