[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] /net: memory interface (memif)

Honnappa Nagarahalli Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
Mon Dec 17 05:54:31 CET 2018


> > >> On Dec 10, 2018, at 4:06 AM, Jakub Grajciar <jgrajcia at cisco.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I do not like being the coding style police, but that is most of the
> > > comments
> > here and I will try to test this one later this week. Plus I am sure I
> > missed some style problems, if you have not read the coding style for
> > DPDK please have a read.
> > >
> > > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/coding_style.html
> > >
> > > One comment, why did you include all of the code to handle memif
> > > instead
> > of including the libmemif.a from VPP. I worry if libmemif is changed
> > then we have a breakage. I do not mind the PMD being standalone and I
> > do like not having the dependence.
> Just for my understanding, do you mean to say we could include the
> libmemif.a as a binary in DPDK?
> 
> IMO, I would like to view DPDK as the device abstraction and VPP as the
> protocol stack built on top. From this perspective, it is good to have
> standalone memif in DPDK.
> 
> > >
> > > As I did not dive into the code much it does look reasonable and I
> > > hope to
> > give it a try later this week.
> > >>
> >
> > A couple more items, do you plan on writing the documentation for the
> > PMD and provide an example program?
> +1, would be good to have a cover letter.
Please ignore, I already see V3 having some documentation.

> I would like to run this on Arm platforms, mostly in the beginning of Jan.
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keith



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