On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 5:00 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> It's probably going to work if each driver has a separate set of tx
> >> fentry points, something like:
> >> {veth,mlx5,etc}_devtx_submit()
> >> {veth,mlx5,etc}_devtx_complete()
>
> I really don't get the opposition to exposing proper APIs; as a
> dataplane developer I want to attach a program to an interface. The
> kernel's role is to provide a consistent interface for this, not to
> require users to become driver developers just to get at the required
> details.
Consistent interface can appear only when there is a consistency
across nic manufacturers.
I'm suggesting to experiment in the most unstable way and
if/when the consistency is discovered then generalize.
