[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] eal: add power management intrinsics

Liang, Ma liang.j.ma at intel.com
Mon Sep 14 23:12:17 CEST 2020


On 04 Sep 11:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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we are very open to discuss design  with other vendor.
> Before this is merged, please work with Arm maintainers to have a version that
> works on Arm 64 as well. Don't think this should be merged unless the two major
> platforms supported by DPDK can work with it. 

> Also, not sure if this mechanism can work with other drivers. You need to
> work with other vendors to show that the same infrastructure can work with
> their hardware. Once again, I don't think this can go in if it only can
> work on Intel.  It needs to work on Broadcom, Mellanox to be useful.
this mechanism should work with any device use a HW ring descriptor mechanism. 
I think most Mellanox and Broadcom NIC can support it easily. 

> Will it work in a VM? Will it work with virtio or vmxnet3?
> 
General speaking, Guest OS is not very easy to use this.
However, virtio is under invetigation.
> Having a single vendor solution is a non-starter for me.
> They don't all have to be there to get it merged, but if the design only
> works on single platform then it is not helpful.


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