On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:54:03AM -0600, Mike Ximing Chen wrote: > Intel DLB is an accelerator for the event-driven programming model of > DPDK's Event Device Library[2]. The library is used in packet processing > pipelines that arrange for multi-core scalability, dynamic load-balancing, > and variety of packet distribution and synchronization schemes
The more that I look at this driver, the more I think this is a "run around" the networking stack. Why are you all adding kernel code to support DPDK which is an out-of-kernel networking stack? We can't support that at all. Why not just use the normal networking functionality instead of this custom char-device-node-monstrosity? What is missing from todays kernel networking code that requires this run-around? thanks, greg k-h
