Stephen Hemminger
Stephen Hemminger
To be more clear about what this is trying to do: - The network processing application (for example OpenVswitch) is a DPDK primary process which interacts with usermode network drivers....
Correct. It is not using libpcap directly on DPDK device. Libpcap has a DPDK shim but it only works when it is the primary process, making it useless except for...
Sure, having gencode standalone would be good.
The pcap-dpdk.c driver wants to be the primary process and own the device, which makes it useless for most applications. See my comment above.
My longer term plan is to support all flavors. - DPDK only using the rte_pdump library and application that is part of DPDK - Libpcap used in primary process (current...
Egress qdisc has an actual packet queue, and the choice of qdisc determines how it schedules those packets. See pfifo, sfq, codel, etc. Ingress qdisc has no actual queue of...
Sure, just add me as reviewer if you want