On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:35:05 +0000 Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Stephen, > > Tuesday, July 24, 2018 3:51 AM, Stephen Hemminger: > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] net/mlx5: lay groundwork for switch > > offloads > > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:40:47 +0100 > > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > Just to highlight this new PMD level dependency to libmnl. > > > > > > tap pmd also uses netlink and vdev_netvsc also does nl communication, > > > perhaps we can discuss unifying netlink usage around this new library. > > > > > > > > > > I am concerned that this won't work on FreeBSD and it will end up farther > > behind. > > Can you elaborate? What is the reason it will not work? > > There is no working netlink on FreeBSD. There is no eBPF on FreeBSD.
