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| author |   Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2017-05-16 14:51:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> | 2017-05-16 16:20:45 +0200 |
| commit | 7595afa4d30097c1177b69257118d8ad89a539be (patch) | |
| tree | 4bfeadc905c977e45e54a90c42330553b8942e4e /doc/guides/contributing/design.rst | |
| parent | ce3d555e43e3795b5d9507fcfc76b7a0a92fd0d6 (diff) | |
Imported Upstream version 17.05
Change-Id: Id1e419c5a214e4a18739663b91f0f9a549f1fdc6
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
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diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/design.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/design.rst index bac3d1b4..88d3a433 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/design.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/design.rst @@ -158,3 +158,17 @@ cache bandwidth, memory bandwidth, etc) that depends on: branches are usually required. When processing a burst of packets that have been validated for header integrity, counting the number of bits set in a bitmask might be needed. + +PF and VF Considerations +------------------------ + +The primary goal of DPDK is to provide a userspace dataplane. Managing VFs from +a PF driver is a control plane feature and developers should generally rely on +the Linux Kernel for that. + +Developers should work with the Linux Kernel community to get the required +functionality upstream. PF functionality should only be added to DPDK for +testing and prototyping purposes while the kernel work is ongoing. It should +also be marked with an "EXPERIMENTAL" tag. If the functionality isn't +upstreamable then a case can be made to maintain the PF functionality in DPDK +without the EXPERIMENTAL tag. |