On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:04:06AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > > >I will NAK patches to change to common code for netvsc especially the > > >three device model. MS worked hard with distro vendors to support transparent > > >mode, ans we really can't have a new model; or do backport. > > > > > >Plus, DPDK is now dependent on existing model. > > > > Sorry, but nobody here cares about dpdk or other similar oddities. > > The network device model is a userspace API, and DPDK is a userspace application. It is userspace but are you sure dpdk is actually poking at netdevs? AFAIK it's normally banging device registers directly. > You can't go breaking userspace even if you don't like the application. Could you please explain how is the proposed patchset breaking userspace? Ignoring DPDK for now, I don't think it changes the userspace API at all. -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
