Hi Andrew I'm developing a kit for kernel bypass purpose.OpenOnLoad already provides a way to do kernel bypass.
Can dpdk also be used for kernel bypassing purpose on intel/solarflare cards? Ankit Aggarwal On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com > wrote: > Hi Ankit, > > (May be us...@dpdk.org is a better place for such questions) > > OpenOnload provides a user-level TCP/IP stack with POSIX interface – > transparently runs any Linux sockets binary without requiring any changes > to the application. "DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast > packet processing. [snip] DPDK is not a networking stack" (quotes from > dpdk.org). So they have very different end use-cases. > > So if end-use case is performing packet processing and/or switching > packets between network interfaces then DPDK allows an open API to be used. > However, if app needs to terminate TCP or UDP flows then OpenOnload > provides a mature TCP/IP stack. We’ve seen good results with applications > such as Nginx with OpenOnload. > > Regards, > Andrew. > > > On 03/20/2017 05:22 PM, Ankit Aggarwal wrote: > > Hi DPDK Users/devs > > Can you please tell me the benefits of using DPDK over openonload for > solarflare cards? > > Ankit Aggarwal > > >
