[dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK

Zhang, Helin helin.zhang at intel.com
Tue Sep 9 08:47:48 CEST 2014


☺ That means your great works under GPL/LGPL license will not occur in DPDK main line, as it is always BSD license.

Regards,
Helin

From: Vadim Suraev [mailto:vadim.suraev at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:43 PM
To: Zhang, Helin
Cc: Matthew Hall; dev at dpdk.org
Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK


IMHO, since GPL is more restrictive so the source must remain open
On Sep 9, 2014 9:39 AM, "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang at intel.com<mailto:helin.zhang at intel.com>> wrote:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org<mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org>] On Behalf Of Vadim Suraev
> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:30 PM
> To: Matthew Hall
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org<mailto:dev at dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK
>
> I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated with
> DPDK,  the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published (and
> announced) within few days.

Any license issue of porting Linux kernel stack into DPDK?

> Regards,
> Vadim
> On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net<mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net>> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
> > > I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack
> > > is
> > based
> > > on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster
> > > to forwarding packets.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any
> > L4 purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress.
> >
> > You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with
> > https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about
> > behavior / performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious
> > if you can give some more comments.
> >
> > I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not
> > using BSD standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have.
> >
> > Matthew.
> >

Regards,
Helin


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