* HS (hyunseok at ieee.org) wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > > Sure KNI can offer ethtool interface. But suppose I am already running a > DPDK application on a physical port, but at the same time I want to control > the port with ethtool like interface. How could I do that?
HS, I might be missing something there, but with the current model of usermode device drivers I don't think this is simple. If drivers stayed in kernel and kernel drivers exposed a mechansim for registering application dma buffers for dpdk apps, then ethtool would simply work as-is. thanks, -chris
