Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/25] Support VFD on i40e

2017-01-11 Thread JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)
Hi Vincent, Greetings! Jumping into this debate a bit late, but let me share our point of view based on how we are using this code within AT&T for our NFV cloud. Actually, we first started with trying to do the configuration within the kernel drivers as you suggest, but quickly realized that

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/25] Support VFD on i40e

2017-01-11 Thread JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)
e gaps of the Kernel API? Thank you, Vincent Le 11 janvier 2017 3:59:45 AM "JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)" mailto:kaust...@research.att.com>> a écrit : Hi Vincent, Greetings! Jumping into this debate a bit late, but let me share our point of view based on how we are using this co

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 00/25] Support VFD on i40e

2017-01-11 Thread JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)
r 2017 3:59:45 AM "JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)" mailto:kaust...@research.att.com>> a écrit : Hi Vincent, Greetings! Jumping into this debate a bit late, but let me share our point of view based on how we are using this code within AT&T for our NFV cloud. Actually, w

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/29] Support VFD and DPDK PF + kernel VF on i40e

2017-01-15 Thread JOSHI, KAUSTUBH (KAUSTUBH)
John, Thanks for comments. To answer a specific question you raised: > Open question for me on this though is the PF in these SRIOV cases > ever being used by DPDK datapath or is it just being leveraged for > configuration with primarily control traffic? In our case, the answer is yes. We intend