[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/5] graph: introduce graph subsystem

[Thomas Monjalon]

Hi Jerin,

17/02/2020 08:19, Jerin Jacob:
> I got initial comments from Ray and Stephen on this RFC[1]. Thanks for
> the comments.
> 
> Is anyone else planning to have an architecture level or API usage
> level review or any review of other top-level aspects?

If we add rte_graph to DPDK, we will have 2 similar libraries.

I already proposed several times to move rte_pipeline in a separate
repository for two reasons:
	1/ it is acting at a higher API layer level
	2/ there can be different solutions in this layer

I think 1/ was commonly agreed in the community.
Now we see one more proof of the reason 2/.

I believe it is time to move rte_pipeline (Packet Framework)
in a separate repository, and welcome rte_graph as well in another
separate repository.

I think the original DPDK repository should focus on low-level features
which offer hardware offloads and optimizations.
Consuming the low-level API in different abstractions,
and building applications, should be done on top of dpdk.git.