[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs virtio?

Wiles, Keith keith.wiles at intel.com
Wed Mar 15 21:19:28 CET 2017


> On Mar 15, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> Le 15/03/2017 à 05:10, O'Driscoll, Tim a écrit :
>>> so, still an nack because:
>>>   - no performance data of avp vs virtio,
>> I don't think it should be a requirement for Allain to provide performance data in order to justify getting this accepted into DPDK. Keith pointed out in a previous comment on this patch set that even if performance is the same as virtio, there might still be other reasons why people would want to use it.
>> 
>>>   - 2013 is gone,
>>>   - it unfocuses from virtio.
> 
> Tim,
> 
> you get it wrong, it IS the major point: if AVP is good in performance, then an alternative to virtio is needed.
> 
> Please, stop turning around the topic, and send facts/numbers that demonstrate that there is a value in having alternative to virtio. Currently, the only argument is a code developed in 2013 needs to  be upstreamed because vhost-user was not available in 2013.

I am sorry Vincent, but no one else provided performance data on any of the PMDs I did not have to provide performance data on TAP compared to AF_PACKET. Then why would you need to require performance data on this PMD, just because it uses something similar to what we have in some other PMDs is not a reason. The core code of DPKD is not PMDs is very important part, but they are just drivers for data I/O and DPDK provides the framework to run these drivers.

Tim is not turning around the topic here, only pointing out the real questions and statements on this topic.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Vincent

Regards,
Keith



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