DPDK can be thought of as a device driver - there can be multiple device drivers - tap interface handler is also, technically, a device driver. So are the host-if, ssvm etc. etc. Their job is to collect packets from their respective "media" (a physical interface for dpdk, kernel for tap, shared memory for ssvm etc.) and hand them off to VPP.
DPDK essentially collects the packets and feeds them to the VPP forwarding engine. VPP will then start parsing the packet. It so happens that DPDK does some optimization and directly feeds the packet to IP rather than to the ethernet node in the graph (because Intel adapters can validate IP checksum etc.). Without optimization (for other device drivers) the packets go to ethernet input and gets processed from byte 0 of the packet. Hope this helps. Thanks, -nagp On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Mahesh Ishwar Mathad < mi.mah...@globaledgesoft.com> wrote: > Thanks for the great support. > > The VPP platform grabs all available packets from RX rings to form a > vector of packets. These vector of packets who will classify these > packets either DPDK or VPP ?. If it is VPP how VPP will classify packet > because what I am thinking for every packet VPP is decapsulating to know > which packet actually it is, that particular packet is sent to the > respected node. By this doing this mechanism VPP is simply wasting > machine cycle. If my thinking is worng, please tell me which algorithm > is this VPP is following so that i can understand. > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Mahesh Mathad. > > Disclaimer:- The information contained in this electronic message and any > attachments to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the > addressee(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged > information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. The > views expressed in this E-mail message (including the enclosure/(s) or > attachment/(s) if any) are those of the individual sender, except where the > sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of > GlobalEdge. Before opening any mail and attachments please check them for > viruses .GlobalEdge does not accept any liability for virus infected mails. > > _______________________________________________ > vpp-dev mailing list > vpp-dev@lists.fd.io > https://lists.fd.io/mailman/listinfo/vpp-dev >
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