From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" Subject: Re: PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 05:07:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: "Burakov, Anatoly" , "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" Thank you Anatoly ! I=B9ll take a look at it and get back in case of questions. -Sujith On 28/05/14 2:22 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" wrote: >Hi Sujith, > >> One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO. Hope >> this is acceptable. The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this >>decision. >> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html > >You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native >support for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits >your purposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to >simplify your code. > >[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html > >Best regards, >Anatoly Burakov >DPDK SW Engineer > > >