On 3/9/2016 11:41 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > This patch sent to keep record of latest status of the work. > > > This work is to make DPDK ports more visible and to enable using common > Linux tools to configure DPDK ports. > > Patch is based on KNI but contains only control functionality of it, > also this patch does not include any Linux kernel network driver as > part of it. > > Basically with the help of a kernel module (KCP), virtual Linux network > interfaces named as "dpdk$" are created per DPDK port, control messages > sent to these virtual interfaces are forwarded to DPDK, and response > sent back to Linux application. > > Virtual interfaces created when DPDK application started and destroyed > automatically when DPDK application terminated. > > Communication between kernel-space and DPDK done using netlink socket. > > In long term this patch intends to replace the KNI and KNI will be > depreciated. >
Self-NACK: Will work on netdev to upstream this.
