[RFC 0/8] ioring: network driver

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:34:39 +0000
Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev at huawei.com> wrote:

> > 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.  
> 
> Makes sense to me, though didn't properly look inside.
> One thing - probably add  a 'tap' into the name,
> 'tap_ioiring' or so, otherwise 'ioring' is a bit too generic 
> and might be confusing.

There are some userspaces that look for "e*" in name for some setups.
But names are totally abitrary