IMHO, since GPL is more restrictive so the source must remain open On Sep 9, 2014 9:39 AM, "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang at intel.com> wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Vadim Suraev > > Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 2:30 PM > > To: Matthew Hall > > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] TCP/IP stack for DPDK > > > > I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated > with > > DPDK, the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published > (and > > announced) within few days. > > Any license issue of porting Linux kernel stack into DPDK? > > > Regards, > > Vadim > > On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote: > > > > I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack > > > > is > > > based > > > > on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster > > > > to forwarding packets. > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any > > > L4 purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress. > > > > > > You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with > > > https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about > > > behavior / performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious > > > if you can give some more comments. > > > > > > I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not > > > using BSD standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have. > > > > > > Matthew. > > > > > Regards, > Helin >
