[dpdk-dev] building LIBRTE_PMD_XENVIRT in 32bit triggers some errors

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Dec 10 09:51:59 CET 2015


2015-12-10 04:45, Xie, Huawei:
> This xen PMD is based on grant table mechanism and virtio interface.
> Worth to note is it needs customized backend, which now resides in
> examples/vhost_xen.
> Another approach is netfront based PMD, which has kernel netback backend
> in place, but i guess it couldn't achieve best performance as we need
> map each grant page in backend. Stephen submitted the patch for netfront
> PMD http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/3330/. Thomas, do you know its
> status?

I think that Stephen told me it was under test.
Stephen, any update?


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