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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
Cc: jblunck@brocade.com, Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] xen: Add UIO kernel driver
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:27:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2345741.PiUorM7y0C@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALe+Z02xM96m+1-BZb85fvknRGBr1vtQKNxX=6OXy2ksdZ__0Q@mail.gmail.com>

2016-03-22 12:04, Jan Blunck:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2016-03-22 10:55, Jan Blunck:
> >> New UIO helper kernel driver for Xen netfront UIO poll mode driver.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>
> >
> > Is it contributed upstream?
> 
> No. Haven't planed that yet.

Integrating new kernel modules in DPDK, without upstream work,
is not planned.

> > Is there something common with igb_uio?
> 
> AFAIK igb_uio is mapping the bars via UIO. The Xen netfront driver
> isn't simulating a PCI interface. Instead it directly maps the TX/RX
> ring.
> 
> Overlap is limited to reading sysfs files. Don't know if that is worth
> being extracted into a standalone header.

No it is not worth extracting. I'm just trying to understand what this
module is, because the log doesn't say much.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-22 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-15 15:24 [PATCH 1/5] xen: allow choosing dom0 support at runtime Stephen Hemminger
     [not found] ` <1424013889-2226-1-git-send-email-shemming-43mecJUBy8ZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-15 15:24   ` [PATCH 2/5] enic: fix device to work with Xen DOM0 Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]     ` <1424013889-2226-2-git-send-email-shemming-43mecJUBy8ZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-10  7:08       ` Liu, Jijiang
2015-02-15 15:24   ` [PATCH 3/5] xen: add phys-addr command line argument Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]     ` <1424013889-2226-3-git-send-email-shemming-43mecJUBy8ZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-26  7:55       ` Liu, Jijiang
     [not found]         ` <1ED644BD7E0A5F4091CF203DAFB8E4CC01DDF09A-0J0gbvR4kThpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-26 16:09           ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-15 15:24   ` [PATCH 4/5] xen: add uio driver Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-22  9:55     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] xen: netfront poll mode driver Jan Blunck
2016-03-22  9:55       ` [PATCH v3 1/3] xen: Add UIO kernel driver Jan Blunck
2016-03-22 10:42         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-22 11:04           ` Jan Blunck
2016-03-22 11:27             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-03-22 14:39               ` Jan Blunck
2016-03-22  9:55       ` [PATCH v3 2/3] xen: Add netfront poll mode driver Jan Blunck
2016-03-22 10:07         ` David Marchand
2016-03-22 10:42           ` Jan Blunck
2016-03-22  9:55       ` [PATCH v3 3/3] xen: Add documentation Jan Blunck
2016-04-20 14:18       ` [PATCH v3 0/3] xen: netfront poll mode driver Bruce Richardson
2016-05-03  9:38         ` Xie, Huawei
2017-02-05 14:44       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-06 14:27         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-02-15 15:24   ` [PATCH 5/5] xen: net-front " Stephen Hemminger
2015-03-10  7:02   ` [PATCH 1/5] xen: allow choosing dom0 support at runtime Liu, Jijiang
2015-07-09  0:10 ` Thomas Monjalon

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