Hi Stephen From: Stephen Hemminger, Monday, April 16, 2018 7:57 PM > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:11:12 +0000 > Matan Azrad <ma...@mellanox.com> wrote: > > > > If the device management is only managed in one place, i.e. not in > > > DPDK, then there is no conflict to manage. > > > > I can't agree with this statement, > > The essence of DPDK is to give a good alternative to managing network > > devices, DPDK actually takes a lot of management area to manage by > > itself to do the user life better :) > > More is not better! DPDK is poorly integrated into Linux overall system. Doing > more in DPDK makes this worse not better.
In this case I think that yes, more is better. Please explain why do you think that in this case it is worse. > Buried under this discussion is the fact that the Mellanox bifurcated driver > behaves completely differently from every other driver. This makes coming > to a common solution much harder. The bifurcated model has advantages > and disadvantages, in this case it is a disadvantage since it is not easy to > manage usage when it is a shared resource. Sorry, what is your point?
