> -----Original Message----- > From: Bie, Tiwei <tiwei....@intel.com> > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:28 PM > To: Matan Azrad <ma...@mellanox.com> > Cc: Wang, Xiao W <xiao.w.w...@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon > <tho...@monjalon.net>; maxime.coque...@redhat.com; Wang, Zhihong > <zhihong.w...@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Shahaf > Shuler > <shah...@mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <or...@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Slava > Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>; Asaf Penso <as...@mellanox.com>; Olga > Shern <ol...@mellanox.com>; Liang, Cunming <cunming.li...@intel.com> > Subject: Re: discussion: creating a new class for vdpa > driversxiao.w.w...@intel.com > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:26:36PM +0000, Matan Azrad wrote: > > Hi all > > > > As described in RFC “[RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devices”, a > > new vdpa drivers is going to be added for Mellanox devices – mlx5_vdpa > > > > The only vdpa driver now is the IFC driver that is located in net directory. > > > > The IFC driver and the new mlx5_vdpa driver provide the vdpa ops and > > not the eth_dev ops. > > > > All the others drivers in net provide the eth-dev ops. > > > > I suggest to create a new class for vdpa drivers, to move IFC to this > > class and to add the mlx5_vdpa to this class too. > > > > Later, all the new drivers that implements the vdpa ops will be added > > to the vdpa class. > > +1. Sounds like a good idea to me. +1
> > Thanks, > Tiwei > > > > > Will be nice to see your comments. > > > > Matan > >
