On 10/24/2018 11:26 PM, Dan Gora wrote: > Hi All, > > Attached is version 7 of a patchset to add a new API function to > set the link status on kernel interfaces created with the KNI kernel > module. > > v7 > ==== > * Add commands to check/clear statistics in kni sample app in KNI sample > app documentation. > >> v6 >> ==== >> * Update info about callback functions in KNI library documentation. >> >> * Minor fixup to module parameter formatting in KNI kernel module. (align >> the "charp" text...) >> >> * Add '-m' flag to KNI sample app command line in KNI sample app >> documentation. >> >> * Add references to KNI library documentation from KNI sample app >> documentation (yay Sphinx!) >> >> v5 >> ==== >> * Update Kernel NIC Interface document with new rte_kni option, move >> kernel module parameter description here from KNI sample app >> document, general cleanup. >> >> * Update Kernel NIC Interface sample application (kni) document >> with new command line parameter, remove documentation for rte_kni >> kernel module but add reference to it, general cleanup. >> >> * Change link status change sample rate for KNI example app to 500ms >> from 100ms. >> >> * Fix bug in parameter parsing in v4 in rte_kni kernel module. >> >> * Fix output formatting of optional parameters for rte_kni with >> modinfo. >> >> * Fix permissions of optional parameters for rte_kni. >> >> * Squash patch to add test for rte_kni_update_link into patch >> introducing the API function. >> >> v4 >> ==== >> * Rework rte_kni_update_link to only take linkup/linkdown as parameter, >> return previous link state, and remove log messages. >> >> * Update patch to set default carrier state to make default carrier >> state configurable by passing the 'carrier=[on|off]' option to >> the rte_kni kernel module. This is necessary in order to allow >> applications which use KNI as pure virtual interfaces without >> corresponding physical ethernet port to use the interfaces without >> having to set the carrier state to 'on' via rte_kni_update_link() >> or by writing to /sys/devices/virtual/net/<ifaceX>/carrier. >> Note that the default is 'off'. >> >> * Add command line flag '-m' to examples/kni to continuously monitor >> and update the KNI interface link status according to the link >> status of the corresponding physical ethernet port. >> >> >> v3 >> ==== >> * Use separate function to test rte_kni_update_link() in 'test' app. >> >> * Separate changes to 'test' app into separate patch to facilitate >> possible merge with https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/44730/ >> >> * Remove changes to set KNI interfaces to 'up' in example/kni >> >> v2 >> ==== >> >> * Fix bug where "Fixed" and "AutoNeg" were transposed in the link >> status log message. >> >> * Add rte_kni_update_link() to rte_kni_version.map >> >> * Add rte_kni_update_link() tests to kni_autotest >> >> * Update examples/kni to continuously monitor link status and >> update the corresponding kernel interface with >> rte_kni_update_link(). >> >> * Minor improvements to examples/kni: Add log message showing how >> to show/zero stats. Improve zeroing statistics. >> >> Note that checkpatches.sh compains about patch 1/5, but this appears >> to be a bug with check-symbol-change or something. If I move the >> fragment of the patch modifying rte_kni_version.map to the bottom of >> the patch file, it doesn't complain any more... I just don't really >> have time to investigate this right now. > > thanks > dan > > Dan Gora (5): > kni: add API to set link status on kernel interface > kni: set default carrier state of interface > examples/kni: monitor and update link status continually > examples/kni: add log msgs to show and clear stats > examples/kni: improve zeroing statistics
For series, Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
