[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Feb 23 09:49:15 CET 2017


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 à 14:36, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk a écrit :
> >>>> 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 know
> > 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?


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