[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9] net/kni: add KNI PMD

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Feb 17 15:57:10 CET 2017


On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:29:51PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 2/17/2017 1:47 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2017-02-17 13:42, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> Add KNI PMD which wraps librte_kni for ease of use.
> >>
> >> KNI PMD can be used as any regular PMD to send / receive packets to the
> >> Linux networking stack.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Yong Wang <yongwang at vmware.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> v9:
> >> * update for 17.05
> > 
> > You keep updating this patch in the hope that someone would be interested :)
> > 
> > Please let's make clear that I am OK to merge it
> > but you asked me to wait for someone supporting its inclusion.
> 
> Right, it is good to mention that I explicitly asked to wait community
> response.
> 
> I keep updating it because I believe this is something useful.
> 
> Meanwhile adding this into repo means maintenance cost, so this should
> not be merged without any usecase or interest from community.
> 
> Patch is waiting for an ACK or NAK from community.
> 
I believe this is useful. No reason for KNI to have to use special
custom rx/tx functions when it can be made to use regular ethdev ones.
So:

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>



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