[dpdk-dev] Ethtool support in DPDK pmd

[Chris Wright]

* HS (hyunseok at ieee.org) wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Sure KNI can offer ethtool interface.  But suppose I am already running a
> DPDK application on a physical port, but at the same time I want to control
> the port with ethtool like interface.  How could I do that?

HS, I might be missing something there, but with the current model of
usermode device drivers I don't think this is simple.

If drivers stayed in kernel and kernel drivers exposed a mechansim for
registering application dma buffers for dpdk apps, then ethtool would
simply work as-is.

thanks,
-chris