[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs virtio? - ivshmem is back

Legacy, Allain Allain.Legacy at windriver.com
Fri Mar 17 11:15:53 CET 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:49 AM

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> I think there is one interesting technological point in this thread.
> We are discussing about IVSHMEM but its support by Qemu is confused.
> This feature is not in the MAINTAINERS file of Qemu.
> Please Qemu maintainers, what is the future of IVSHMEM?

I need to clarify a technical point.  AVP is not ivshmem; at least not in the strict sense of the term.   We initially started out using ivshmem as-is but then we needed to fork from that in order to add functionality that we needed to better integrate with our solution.  AVP is now a separate Wind River specific extension completely independent of any past ivshmem implementation.  I used the term ivshmem in the documentation to provide context to the reader to understand, by comparison, what type of shared memory model we are using.  I can remove that reference if it leads to confusion or a desire to make direct comparisons with ivshmem.


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