[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] kcp: add kernel control path kernel module

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon Feb 29 16:27:53 CET 2016


2016-02-29 17:19, Panu Matilainen:
> On 02/29/2016 01:35 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 2/29/2016 11:06 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I totally agree with Avi's comments.
> >> This topic is really important for the future of DPDK.
> >> So I think we must give some time to continue the discussion
> >> and have netdev involved in the choices done.
> >> As a consequence, these series should not be merged in the release 16.04.
> >> Thanks for continuing the work.
> >>
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > It is great to have some discussion and feedbacks.
> > But I doubt not merging in this release will help to have more discussion.
> >
> > It is better to have them in this release and let people experiment it,
> > this gives more chance to better discussion.
> >
> > These features are replacement of KNI, and KNI is not intended to be
> > removed in this release, so who are using KNI as solution can continue
> > to use KNI and can test KCP/KDP, so that we can get more feedbacks.
> 
> So make the work available from a separate git repo and make it easy for 
> people to experiment with it. Code doesn't have to be in a release for 
> the sake of experimenting, and removing code is much harder than not 
> adding it in the first place, witness KNI.

Good idea.
What about a -next tree to experiment on kernel interactions?


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