[dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK

[Vadim Suraev]

The licensing worms prevent IMHO only selling the source code, although,
porting may be useful
On Sep 9, 2014 5:54 PM, "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen at networkplumber.org>
wrote:

> Porting Linux stack to DPDK opens up a licensing can of worms.
> Linux code is GPLv2, and DPDK code is BSD. Any combination of the two
> would end up
> being covered by the Linux GPLv2 license.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> >
>>
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