Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-27 Thread Eads, Gage
Agreed on both points. I'll submit a patchset to remove the l2fwd_fork example and its user-guide, so it doesn't appear that DPDK supports this model. If anyone on the ML disagrees, they can respond here or on the patch thread. > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step.

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-27 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:03:48 +0200 Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 27/07/2018 15:46, Eads, Gage: > > As this discussion has broad implications for DPDK, is it a good candidate > > for a techboard meeting topic? > > We can discuss it in techboard, but usually we prefer discussing topics > whose reso

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-27 Thread Thomas Monjalon
27/07/2018 15:46, Eads, Gage: > As this discussion has broad implications for DPDK, is it a good candidate > for a techboard meeting topic? We can discuss it in techboard, but usually we prefer discussing topics whose resolution is not clear. In this case, I think everybody agree with Anatoly, i

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-27 Thread Eads, Gage
As this discussion has broad implications for DPDK, is it a good candidate for a techboard meeting topic? > -Original Message- > From: Burakov, Anatoly > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 10:09 AM > To: Eads, Gage ; dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: DPDK and forked processes > > On 16-Jul-18 4:00 P

Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-16 Thread Burakov, Anatoly
On 16-Jul-18 4:00 PM, Eads, Gage wrote: Hi all, Does DPDK support forking secondary processes after executing rte_eal_init()? The l2fwd_fork example and at least one application (OpenEM: https://sourceforge.net/projects/eventmachine/) use this model, and they do so by fixing up the EAL intern

[dpdk-dev] DPDK and forked processes

2018-07-16 Thread Eads, Gage
Hi all, Does DPDK support forking secondary processes after executing rte_eal_init()? The l2fwd_fork example and at least one application (OpenEM: https://sourceforge.net/projects/eventmachine/) use this model, and they do so by fixing up the EAL internals (e.g. manually changing process_type f