On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:55 AM Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > > 1) Go ahead with both approaches as experimental lib/drivers inside > > > DPDK > > > > Now that there is approval from TB. > > > > I would like to ask, Is anyone planning to review the specification header > > file > > [1]? > I plan to, but need some time. With the holiday approaching, things are busy.
Thanks. I request to check top-level semantics in specification header files as the first step. Other next-level details, we can change at any time. If you planning for any time frame, do let me know, so that we can decide when to start the implementation. > > > > > There was a comment to remove the TLV length. I will do that next version > > with > > implementation. > > > > Identified the following set of work for this. > > > > 1) Common code at lib/dwa/ > > 2) Marvell DPU based driver at drivers/dwa/cnxk/ > > 3) Test application at app/test-dwa/ > > 4) It is possible to have an SW driver(To allow non-specialized HW to use > > the > > framework) for this by: > > a) Emulate DWA HW as a separate DPDK process > > b) Add drivers/dwa/sw/ and use memif driver so to create a communication > > channel between emulated DWA HW process and DPDK application. > Why use memif driver? Why not ring-pmd? Planning to emulation DWA accelerator functional model as a separate DPDK process in SW case. Therefore memif is the ideal choice as it supports zero-copy of the data as well. https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html > > > c) Add drivers/dwa/sw/profiles//l3fwd - To implement l3fwd profile using > > DPDK > > libraries for SW driver. > > > > I think, Item (4) aka SW drivers as useful(We don't need to implement for > > all > > profiles, I think, just for l3fwd it make sense to add, to allow to use of > > the > > framework in just SW mode). > > Is there any opinion on adding item (4) in DPDK? I saw mixed opinions > > earlier on > > this. I would like to understand, Is there any objection to doing > > item(4) in DPDK as it needs a good amount of work and I don't want to do > > throw it away if the community doesn't like this. > > Any opinion? > > > > [1] > > http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-October/226070.html > > > <snip>
