[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] DPDK ABI/API Stability

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Mon Apr 8 15:58:03 CEST 2019


On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:39 PM Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
wrote:

> As a concrete proposal, my number one dream would be to see multiprocess
> gone. I also recall desire for "DPDK to be more lightweight", and i
> maintain that DPDK *cannot* be lightweight if we are to support
> multiprocess - we can have one or the other, but not both. However,
> realistically, i don't think dropping multiprocess is ever going to
> happen - not only it is too entrenched in DPDK use cases, it is actually
> quite useful despite its flaws.
>

Well, honestly, I'd like to hear about this.
What are the real usecases for multi process support?
Do we have even a single opensource project that uses it?


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David Marchand


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