[dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK

[Vadim Suraev]

IMHO, since GPL is more restrictive so the source must remain open
On Sep 9, 2014 9:39 AM, "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang at intel.com> wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Vadim Suraev
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:30 PM
> > To: Matthew Hall
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK
> >
> > I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated
> with
> > DPDK,  the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published
> (and
> > announced) within few days.
>
> Any license issue of porting Linux kernel stack into DPDK?
>
> > Regards,
> > Vadim
> > On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
> > > > I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack
> > > > is
> > > based
> > > > on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster
> > > > to forwarding packets.
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any
> > > L4 purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress.
> > >
> > > You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with
> > > https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about
> > > behavior / performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious
> > > if you can give some more comments.
> > >
> > > I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not
> > > using BSD standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have.
> > >
> > > Matthew.
> > >
>
> Regards,
> Helin
>