Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-22 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:57 PM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 22/07/2020 11:09, Jerin Jacob: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:26 PM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 22/07/2020 10:45, Jerin Jacob: > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM Thomas Monjalon > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In addition may I

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-22 Thread Thomas Monjalon
22/07/2020 11:09, Jerin Jacob: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:26 PM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 22/07/2020 10:45, Jerin Jacob: > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM Thomas Monjalon > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > In addition may I ask your opinion on the changes that are required > > > > > before the l

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-22 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:26 PM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 22/07/2020 10:45, Jerin Jacob: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > > > In addition may I ask your opinion on the changes that are required > > > > before the library can be accepted? > > > > > > Very few con

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-22 Thread Thomas Monjalon
22/07/2020 10:45, Jerin Jacob: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > > In addition may I ask your opinion on the changes that are required > > > before the library can be accepted? > > > > Very few contributors take time to look at it. > > Clearly we want this feature. We

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-22 Thread Jerin Jacob
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 6:10 AM Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > In addition may I ask your opinion on the changes that are required > > before the library can be accepted? > > Very few contributors take time to look at it. > Clearly we want this feature. We really want it, > but we are not able to ded

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-21 Thread Thomas Monjalon
09/07/2020 10:43, Andrzej Ostruszka [C]: > First of all let me thank you all one again for the time you took > looking at this and summarize your feedback as I understand it. > > 1. Don't use interrupt thread because in heavy load scenarios this might > cause problems. Yes For this usage, and f

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-09 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
First of all let me thank you all one again for the time you took looking at this and summarize your feedback as I understand it. 1. Don't use interrupt thread because in heavy load scenarios this might cause problems. 2. Provide higher level functionality - so that application can just use it

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-08 Thread Morten Brørup
> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Andrzej Ostruszka > [C] > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 10:14 PM > > First of all, please excuse me Stephen for late reply. > > On 02/07/2020 02:34, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I had great hopes for this library, because such code exists in >

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-07 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
First of all, please excuse me Stephen for late reply. On 02/07/2020 02:34, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I had great hopes for this library, because such code exists in > almost every real world application. But the current version falls > short. Sorry to disappoint. > So what this library does is

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-07-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
I had great hopes for this library, because such code exists in almost every real world application. But the current version falls short. So what this library does is turn a message based protocol (netlink) into a set of callbacks. Not sure if that is all that useful processing messages is often

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] lib: introduce IF Proxy library

2020-03-10 Thread Andrzej Ostruszka
This library allows to designate ports visible to the system (such as Tun/Tap or KNI) as port representors serving as proxies for other DPDK ports. When such a proxy is configured this library initially queries network configuration from the system and later monitors its changes. The information