On 3/29/2017 11:44 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > Le 28/03/2017 à 13:53, Allain Legacy a écrit : >> This patch series submits an initial version of the AVP PMD from Wind River >> Systems. The series includes shared header files, driver implementation, >> and changes to documentation files in support of this new driver. The AVP >> driver is a shared memory based device. It is intended to be used as a PMD >> within a virtual machine running on a Wind River virtualization platform. >> See: http://www.windriver.com/products/titanium-cloud/ >> >> It enables optimized packet throughput without requiring any packet >> processing in qemu. This allowed us to provide our customers with a >> significant performance increase for both DPDK and non-DPDK applications >> in the VM. Since our AVP implementation supports VM live-migration it >> is viewed as a better alternative to PCI passthrough or PCI SRIOV since >> neither of those support VM live-migration without manual intervention >> or significant performance penalties. >> >> Since the initial implementation of AVP devices, vhost-user has become part >> of the qemu offering with a significant performance increase over the >> original virtio implementation. However, vhost-user still does not achieve >> the level of performance that the AVP device can provide to our customers >> for DPDK based guests. >> >> A number of our customers have requested that we upstream the driver to >> dpdk.org. > > Acked-by: vincent.jar...@6wind.com
Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
