netdev - RE: [RFC PATCH v12 01/17] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver

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Date:   Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:15:34 +0000
From:   "Chen, Mike Ximing" <mike.ximing.chen@...el.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com" 
        <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v12 01/17] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2021 4:27 PM
> To: Chen, Mike Ximing <mike.ximing.chen@...el.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; arnd@...db.de; gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; Williams, Dan J
> <dan.j.williams@...el.com>; pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org;
> davem@...emloft.net; kuba@...nel.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v12 01/17] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver
> 
> > > pointing to skbufs? How are the lifetimes of skbufs managed? How do
> > > you get skbufs out of the NIC? Are you using XDP?
> >
> > This is not a network accelerator in the sense that it does not have
> > direct access to the network sockets/ports. We do not use XDP.
> 
> So not using XDP is a problem. I looked at previous versions of this patch, and it is all DPDK. But DPDK is
> not in mainline, XDP is. In order for this to be merged into mainline you need a mainline user of it.
> 
> Maybe you should abandon mainline, and just get this driver merged into the DPDK fork of Linux?
> 
Hi Andrew,

I am not sure why not using XDP is a problem. As mentioned earlier, the
DLB driver is not a part of network stack.  

DPDK is one of applications that can make a good use of DLB, but is not the
only one. We have applications that access DLB directly via the kernel driver API
without using DPDK. Even in a DPDK application, the only part that involves
DLB is the eventdev poll mod driver module, in which we can replace a
traditional software base queue manager with DLB. The network access and
receiving/transmitting data from/to NIC is, on the other hand, handled by
the ethdev in DPDK. The eventdev (and DLB) distributes packet processing
over multiple worker cores.

Thanks
Mike