[dpdk-dev] proposal: raw packet send and receive API for PMD driver

2015-05-27 Thread Venkatesan, Venky
> -Original Message- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Wiles, Keith > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 7:51 AM > To: Lin XU; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] proposal: raw packet send and receive API for PMD > driver > > > >

[dpdk-dev] proposal: raw packet send and receive API for PMD driver

2015-05-27 Thread Wiles, Keith
On 5/26/15, 11:18 PM, "Lin XU" wrote: >I think it is very important to decouple PMD driver with DPDK framework. > (1) Currently, the rte_mbuf struct is too simple and hard to support >complex application such as IPSEC, flow control etc. This key struct >should be extendable to support custome

[dpdk-dev] proposal: raw packet send and receive API for PMD driver

2015-05-27 Thread Lin XU
I think it is very important to decouple PMD driver with DPDK framework. (1) Currently, the rte_mbuf struct is too simple and hard to support complex application such as IPSEC, flow control etc. This key struct should be extendable to support customer defined management header and hardware of

[dpdk-dev] proposal: raw packet send and receive API for PMD driver

2015-05-14 Thread Guojiachun
Hello, This is our proposal to introduce new PMD APIs, it would be much better to integrate DPDK into various applications. There is a gap in hardware offload when you porting DPDK to new platform which support some offload features, like packet accelerator, buffer management etc. If we can mak