[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-11-02 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
Hi Xie (2014/11/01 7:05), Xie, Huawei wrote: > Hi Tetsuya: > I am implementing vhost-user, and the functionality works now. > During this work, I have refactored vhost code a bit for better > modularization, basically > virtio part, control message part(vhost-user, vhost cuse) and data part. :).

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-31 Thread Xie, Huawei
t: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015 > > Hi All, > > (2014/10/22 22:48), O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > > implementation, > incorporating the best features from each of the exist

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-24 Thread Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-24 08:10, O'driscoll, Tim: > > From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] > > Specifically, in the virtio-net case above, I have discovered, and Sergio > > at Intel > > just reproduced today, that neither virtio PMD works at all inside of > > VirtualBox. One can't init, and the o

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-24 Thread Matthew Hall
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > I'm the author of this page. I think I've written VirtualBox to show where > virtio is implemented. You interpreted this as "supported environment", so > I'm removing it. Thanks for testing and reporting. Of course, I'm very sorr

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-24 Thread Matthew Hall
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:10:40AM +, O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > At the moment, within Intel we test with KVM, Xen and ESXi. We've never > tested with VirtualBox. So, maybe this is an error on the Supported NICs > page, or maybe somebody else is testing that configuration. So, one of the most

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-24 Thread O'driscoll, Tim
> From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 01:48:36PM +, O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > > implementation, incorporating the best features from each of the > > existing drivers. > > Specific

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-23 Thread O'driscoll, Tim
> From: lukego at gmail.com [mailto:lukego at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Luke > Gorrie > > On 22 October 2014 15:48, O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > implementation, incorporating > the best features from each of the existing drivers. >

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-23 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
Hi All, (2014/10/22 22:48), O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > implementation, incorporating the best features from each of the existing > drivers. It's nice plan. We should do it. In my understanding, the following drivers could be merg

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-23 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
Hi, (2014/10/22 22:48), O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > PCI Hot Plug: When you migrate a VM, you need hot plug support as the new VF > on the new hardware you are running on post-migration needs to be > initialized. With an emulated NIC migration is seamless as all configuration > for the NIC is with

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-23 Thread O'driscoll, Tim
> From: Tetsuya Mukawa [mailto:mukawa at igel.co.jp] > > (2014/10/22 22:48), O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > implementation, incorporating the best features from each of the existing > drivers. > > It's nice plan. We should do it. > I

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-23 Thread O'driscoll, Tim
> From: Tetsuya Mukawa [mailto:mukawa at igel.co.jp] > > (2014/10/22 22:48), O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > > > PCI Hot Plug: When you migrate a VM, you need hot plug support as the > new VF on the new hardware you are running on post-migration needs to be > initialized. With an emulated NIC migration

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-22 Thread Luke Gorrie
Hi Tim, On 22 October 2014 15:48, O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > 2.0 (Q1 2015) DPDK Features: > Bifurcated Driver: With the Bifurcated Driver, the kernel will retain > direct control of the NIC, and will assign specific queue pairs to DPDK. > Configuration of the NIC is controlled by the kernel via et

[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] DPDK Features for Q1 2015

2014-10-22 Thread O'driscoll, Tim
We're starting to plan our DPDK features for next year. We're planning to have a DPDK 2.0 release at the end of March, and we'd like to inform the community of the features that we hope to submit to that release. The current list of features, along with brief descriptions, is included below. Th

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2014-10-22 Thread Matthew Hall
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 01:48:36PM +, O'driscoll, Tim wrote: > Single Virtio Driver: Merge existing Virtio drivers into a single > implementation, incorporating the best features from each of the existing > drivers. Tim, There is a lot of good stuff in there. Specifically, in the virtio-ne