[dpdk-dev] 17.02 Roadmap

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-10-13 15:18, Hunt, David:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On 10/10/2016 9:42 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-10-10 16:13, O'Driscoll, Tim:
> >> Packet Distributor Enhancements: Enhancements will be made to the Packet Distributor library to improve performance:
> >> 1. Introduce burst functionality to allow batches of packets to be sent to workers.
> >> 2. Improve the performance of the flow/core affinity through the use of SSE/AVX instructions.
> > 
> > The packet distributor looks more and more like a DPDK application
> > at the same level of BESS, VPP, OVS, etc.
> 
> Lets discuss this further.  Would you see other libraries heading in 
> this direction also (reorder, acl, hash, etc)?

Not so easy to put things in a category.

> Do you think it would be an idea to add as an item of discussion for the 
> technical steering group when we're all at Userspace next week?

If others are interested to discuss about libraries categories and growth,
yes I'll jump in.