[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/kni: add KNI PMD

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Sep 8 20:11:31 CEST 2016


On 9/8/2016 10:38 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-09-08 10:25, Bruce Richardson:
>> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:44:55AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>> 2016-09-06 11:33, Ferruh Yigit:
>>>> Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use.
>>>>
>>>> KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the
>>>> Linux networking stack.
>>>
>>> Good move!
>>> Why not deprecate librte_kni and move all the code in the PMD later?
>>
>> +1 to this plan. However, I don't think it all needs to be done in one patchset,
>> though, does it?
> 
> I think the deprecation notice must be in this patchset along with some
> __rte_deprecated in front of librte_kni functions.
> Then the move of the library in the PMD could be done in the next release.
> 

Not sure about deprecating librte_kni, this means existing KNI
applications needs to be updated. What is the benefit of this effort?

Also librte_kni supports more than what PMD does, like PMD doesn't have
ethtool support or binding kernel threads, it uses hardcoded mbuf_size...

I was thinking PMD as a data only, simplified use case of library.

Regards,
ferruh





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