[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] drivers/net:new PMD using tun/tap host interface

[Yuanhan Liu]

[ just got few more comments after some fiddling with the build issue ]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:22:13AM -0500, Keith Wiles wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tap/Makefile b/drivers/net/tap/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..442a2fe
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/tap/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
> +#   BSD LICENSE
> +#
> +#   Copyright(c) 2014 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
> +#   Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
> +#   Copyright(c) 2014 6WIND S.A.

Just wondering, is it on purpose, or just yet another copy-paste error?

> +#include <arpa/inet.h>
> +#include <net/if.h>
> +#ifdef __linux__

So, you meant to add other OS support, say BSD?

> +#include <linux/if.h>
> +#include <linux/if_tun.h>
> +#include <linux/if_ether.h>
> +#else
> +#include <netinet/if_ether.h>
> +#endif
> +#include <fcntl.h>
> +
> +#include <poll.h>
> +
> +/* Linux based path to the TUN device */
> +#define TUN_TAP_DEV_PATH        "/dev/net/tun"

However, you hardcoded a linux only path here. While checking the code
from qemu, I saw that the path is actually different from different UNIX
variants, even for FreeBSD and NetBSD.

    [yliu at yliu-dev ~/qemu]$ grep -E "/dev/.*(tap|tun)" net/tap*.c
    net/tap-bsd.c:            snprintf(dname, sizeof dname, "/dev/tun%d", i);
    net/tap-bsd.c:            snprintf(dname, sizeof dname, "/dev/tap%d", i);
    net/tap-bsd.c:#define PATH_NET_TAP "/dev/tap"
    net/tap-linux.c:#define PATH_NET_TUN "/dev/net/tun"
    net/tap-solaris.c:    TFR(tap_fd = open("/dev/tap", O_RDWR, 0));
    ...

	--yliu