[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce net bus

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jun 8 09:31:23 CEST 2017


08/06/2017 02:00, Gaetan Rivet:
> This new bus takes as devices kernel netdevices.
> It offers an API for drivers to register a translation layer that would
> transform the netdev name to one their regular PMD would be able to
> probe.
> 
> This is PoC. It currently only works for MLX4 and MLX5 PMDs as they were
> bifurcated and had very little work to do otherwise.
> 
> The planned feature is for at least all PCI drivers, be able to unbind
> the device from its kmod and bind it to a choosen IO module, prior to
> probing.
> 
> Additional possible feature would be a close integration with eventually
> NCI-like lib, to transparently capture kernel devices, keep a control
> interface present and bind / unbind the underlying hardware function as
> necessary.

I'm sorry, I do not understand the description.
Please start with a real problem statement and explain how it is solved.
Thanks


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