And what is the benefit of doing that?

— 
Damjan



> On 24.10.2021., at 11:24, Mrityunjay Kumar <kumarn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I can dump my opinion regarding this.  we can disable memif plugin and  
> same feature can be achieved using dpdk EAL option.  For details please refer 
> bellow link.
> 
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html 
> <https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/memif.html>
>  
> 
> This required small patch by adding a new statrup.conf section under dpdk { 
> --vdev=net_memif0, net_memif1, … } , to handle this we need to translate this 
> in dpdk plugin to inject EAL in rte_eal_init.
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Sun, 24 Oct, 2021, 5:16 am Damjan Marion, <dmar...@me.com 
> <mailto:dmar...@me.com>> wrote:
> What is your suggestion? Which part of the plugin is wrongly written?
> 
> — 
> Damjan
> 
>> On 24.10.2021., at 00:16, Mrityunjay Kumar <kumarn...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:kumarn...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Damjan, 
>> 
>> I think you are trying to explain one copy always occurs in memif 
>> communication, 
>> 
>> 
>> Currently VPP memif plugin is wrongly/misleadingly written and it also 
>> misguiding to VPP users. 
>> 
>> When I look this code long back,  it also misleading me. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 23 Oct, 2021, 11:52 pm Damjan Marion via lists.fd.io 
>> <http://lists.fd.io/>, <dmarion=me....@lists.fd.io 
>> <mailto:me....@lists.fd.io>> wrote:
>> 
>> Please note that “zero copy memif” doesn’t exist.
>> 
>> Long time ago I possibly wrongly/misleadingly added VPP feature with name 
>> “zero-copy slave”.
>> 
>> It is vpp internal feature which avoids 2nd memcopy by exposing VPP (slave 
>> only) buffers directly to master.
>> In such scenario still one memcpy exists….
>> 
>> 
>> — 
>> Damjan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On 22.10.2021., at 13:19, Satya Murthy <satyamurthy1...@gmail.com 
>> > <mailto:satyamurthy1...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Thanks MJ for the quick reply.
>> > Will try this and check.
>> > 
>> > -- 
>> > Thanks & Regards,
>> > Murthy 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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