From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] doc: add bifurcated driver guide on ixgbe nic Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:58:53 +0200 Message-ID: <2397257.zo8BvNnhcC@xps13> References: <1466650946-22523-1-git-send-email-jingjing.wu@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com, yong.liu@intel.com, helin.zhang@intel.com To: Jingjing Wu Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com (mail-wm0-f45.google.com [74.125.82.45]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8AAC494 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id v199so125651113wmv.0 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:58:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1466650946-22523-1-git-send-email-jingjing.wu@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi, Thank you for providing more doc. I am just not convinced it is the right place and it must be discussed. Some questions below to help deciding where it must be. 2016-06-23 11:02, Jingjing Wu: > Bifurcated driver is a mechanism which depends the advanced > Ethernet device to split traffic between queues. It provides > the capability to let the kernel driver and DPDK driver co-exist > and take their advantage. The name "bifurcated driver" was used for a real driver proposal in Linux. I don't think it applies here. > It is achieved by using SRIOV and NIC's advanced filtering. This > patch describes it and adds the user guide on ixgbe NICs. It is not a DPDK feature, just a use case. What do we learn about DPDK?