> The 2nd version of series of patches are to add i40e PMD support. > It contains the updated basic shared code, and some other enhancements. > It adds the support of the latest version of firmware. > * Add new PMD driver of i40e in the folder of librte_pmd_i40e > * Add some neccessary definitions, changes in rte_mbuf.h and eth_dev > * Add new configurations for i40e > * Add or modifiy makefiles to support i40e compilation > * Add neccessary changes in ixgbe, e1000 and vmxnet3 PMD, as hash flags > has been enlarged from 16 bits to 64 bits to support i40e > * Add neccessary changes in example applications and testpmd to use > ETH_RSS_IP to replace all IP hash flags, as i40e introduced more > hash flags. > * Add command in testpmd for port based vlan insertion offload testing > * Add neccessary changes in eth_dev to support configuring maximum > packet length of less than 1518 > * Add two sys files in igb_uio to support enabling/disabling > 'Extended Tag' and resetting 'Max Read Request Size', as it has > big impacts on i40e performance > * Add neccessary changes in pci to read/write the above two sys files > during probing PCI > > Features/enhancements to be implemented later: > * Set link speed, and physically up/down > * Double VLAN support, flow director, VMDq and DCB > * VLAN insertion/stripping, RSS in VF > > Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang at intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Jing Chen <jing.d.chen at intel.com> > Acked-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com> > Acked-by: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu at intel.com> > Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com> > Acked-by: Heqing Zhu <heqing.zhu at intel.com> > Tested-by: Waterman Cao <waterman.cao at intel.com>
Applied for version 1.7.0. Some things could be cleaned up later, especially i40e specific flags in generic API must be removed. Please work on a patch for next release. Thanks for the hard work -- Thomas
