On 04 Sep 11:42, Stephen Hemminger wrote: <snip> we are very open to discuss design with other vendor. > Before this is merged, please work with Arm maintainers to have a version that > works on Arm 64 as well. Don't think this should be merged unless the two > major > platforms supported by DPDK can work with it.
> Also, not sure if this mechanism can work with other drivers. You need to > work with other vendors to show that the same infrastructure can work with > their hardware. Once again, I don't think this can go in if it only can > work on Intel. It needs to work on Broadcom, Mellanox to be useful. this mechanism should work with any device use a HW ring descriptor mechanism. I think most Mellanox and Broadcom NIC can support it easily. > Will it work in a VM? Will it work with virtio or vmxnet3? > General speaking, Guest OS is not very easy to use this. However, virtio is under invetigation. > Having a single vendor solution is a non-starter for me. > They don't all have to be there to get it merged, but if the design only > works on single platform then it is not helpful.
