On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> So, I hear your arguments, and its understandable that you might not want > a GPL > licensed product, given that the DPDK is a library (though I'm not sure > what the > aversion to LGPL would be). Regardless, I think this conversation is a > bit more > about participation than license choice. While you are correct, in that > the > first step to support (by which I presume you mean participation in the > community) is use, the goal here is to get people contributing patches and > helping increase the usefulness of DPDK. > Given that DPDK is primarily licensed as BSD now, whats preventing you, or > what > would encourage you to participate in the community? I see emails from > infiniteio addresss in the archives asking questions and making > suggestions on > occasion, but no patches. What would get you (or others in a simmilar > situation) to submit those? > 36 hours in the day? :) It's not a lot, but we've submitted a couple of small patches. It's mostly a matter of opportunity. We submit patches as we come across DPDK bugs or find useful optos. *Patches* - replaced O(n^2) sort in sort_by_physaddr() with qsort() from standard library <http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/1955/> - Fixed spam from kni_allocate_mbufs() when no mbufs are free. If mbufs exhausted, 'out of memory' message logged at EXTREMELY high rates. Now logs no more than once per 10 mins <http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/2062/> *Reviews* - kni: optimizing the rte_kni_rx_burst <http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/84/> - [PATCH RFC] librte_reorder: new reorder library <http://www.dpdk.io/ml/archives/dev/2014-October/006767.html> - [PATCH v2 09/17] i40e: clean log messages <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-September/005133.html> (several in that series, but I figure 1 link is plenty) *Other* Not really patches or reviews, but trying to participate in the community: - VMware Fusion + DPDK and KNI <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-August/004737.html> - Appropriate DPDK data structures for TCP sockets <http://patchwork.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-February/013941.html> - kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s! [kni_single:1782] <http://patchwork.dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-February/013335.html> - segmented recv ixgbevf <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-November/007621.html> Jay
