2016-03-22 12:04, Jan Blunck: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > > 2016-03-22 10:55, Jan Blunck: > >> New UIO helper kernel driver for Xen netfront UIO poll mode driver. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> > >> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org> > > > > Is it contributed upstream? > > No. Haven't planed that yet.
Integrating new kernel modules in DPDK, without upstream work, is not planned. > > Is there something common with igb_uio? > > AFAIK igb_uio is mapping the bars via UIO. The Xen netfront driver > isn't simulating a PCI interface. Instead it directly maps the TX/RX > ring. > > Overlap is limited to reading sysfs files. Don't know if that is worth > being extracted into a standalone header. No it is not worth extracting. I'm just trying to understand what this module is, because the log doesn't say much.
