DPDK for rust

Etelson, Gregory getelson at nvidia.com
Thu Mar 27 10:00:40 CET 2025


Hello Morten,

Thank you for raising these questions !

>
> Do we want the DPDK project itself to support rust?
> Or should parts of this be a DPDK hosted project, like grout?

Rust packages management is different.
Also DPDK Rust code will eventually provide a different API.
At this stage, DPDK hosted project looks like a good idea.

>
> I don't object to supporting rust, quite the opposite. I'm only trying to think ahead...
>
> I would hate to see a DPDK patch being rejected because it doesn't support rust, or needs additional work to not break DPDK for rust.
>
> And how about the CI - do we want it to test "DPDK for rust", and how many resources are we going to put into this?


Regards,
Gregory


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