[PATCH] rust: RFC/demo of safe API for Dpdk Eal, Eth and Rxq

[Etelson, Gregory]

Hello Bruce,

> Thanks for sharing. However, IMHO using EAL for thread management in rust
> is the wrong interface to expose.

EAL is a singleton object in DPDK architecture.
I see it as a hub for other resources.
Following that idea, the EAL structure can be divided to hold the 
"original" resources inherited from librte_eal and new resources
introduced in Rust EAL.

> Instead, I believe we should be
> encouraging native rust thread management, and not exposing any DPDK
> threading APIs except those necessary to have rust threads work with DPDK,
> i.e. with an lcore ID. Many years ago when DPDK started, and in the C
> world, having DPDK as a runtime environment made sense, but times have
> changed and for Rust, there is a whole ecosystem out there already that we
> need to "play nice with", so having Rust (not DPDK) do all thread
> management is the way to go (again IMHO).
>

I'm not sure what exposed DPDK API you refer to.

Regards,
Gregory