Sure. We have been working on NPA for a while and have the code internally up
and running. Let me sync up internally on how and when we can provide the
vmxnet3 driver code so that people can look at it.


On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:32:36PM -0700, David Miller wrote:

Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:32:36 -0700
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Pankaj Thakkar <redacted>
CC: "shemminger@vyatta.com" <redacted>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" [off-list ref],
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" [off-list ref],
	"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
 [off-list ref],
	"pv-drivers@vmware.com" [off-list ref],
	Shreyas Bhatewara [off-list ref]
Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3

From: Pankaj Thakkar <redacted>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:18:57 -0700

quoted

The purpose of this email is to introduce the architecture and the
design principles. The overall project involves more than just
changes to vmxnet3 driver and hence we though an overview email
would be better. Once people agree to the design in general we
intend to provide the code changes to the vmxnet3 driver.

Stephen's point is that code talks and bullshit walks.

Talk about high level designs rarely gets any traction, and often goes
nowhere.  Give us an example implementation so there is something
concrete for us to sink our teeth into.