[RFC 0/8] ioring: network driver

[Stephen Hemminger]

This is first draft of new simplified TAP device that uses
the Linux kernel ioring API to provide a read/write ring
with kernel.

This is split from tap device because there are so many
unnecessary things in existing tap, and supporting ioring is
better without ifdefs etc. The default name of the tap
device is different that other uses in DPDK but the driver
tries to keep the same relevant devargs as before.

This driver will only provide features that match what kernel
does, so no flow support etc. The next version will add checksum
and multi-segment packets. Some of the doc files may need update
as well.

Stephen Hemminger (8):
  net/ioring: introduce new driver
  net/ioring: implement link state
  net/ioring: implement control functions
  net/ioring: implement management functions
  net/ioring: implement primary secondary fd passing
  net/ioring: implement receive and transmit
  net/ioring: add VLAN support
  net/ioring: implement statistics

 doc/guides/nics/features/ioring.ini |   14 +
 doc/guides/nics/index.rst           |    1 +
 doc/guides/nics/ioring.rst          |   66 ++
 drivers/net/ioring/meson.build      |   12 +
 drivers/net/ioring/rte_eth_ioring.c | 1067 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/meson.build             |    1 +
 6 files changed, 1161 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/ioring.ini
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/ioring.rst
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/ioring/meson.build
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/ioring/rte_eth_ioring.c

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