Representor is a port in DPDK that is connected to a VF in such a way that assuming there are no offload flows, each packet that is sent from the VF will be received by the corresponding representor. While each packet that is sent to a representor will be received by the VF. This is very useful in case of SRIOV mode, where the first packet that is sent by the VF will be received by the DPDK application which will decide if this flow should be offloaded to the E-Switch.
Representor shares interrupts handler with host PF over the PCI address. Therefore after PF completes it's interrupts handler initialization no additional actions required for representor. Fixes: 26c08b979d26 ("net/mlx5: add port representor awareness") Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getel...@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c index 8d05315e61..df8542f7db 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c @@ -902,6 +902,11 @@ mlx5_rx_intr_vec_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) unsigned int count = 0; struct rte_intr_handle *intr_handle = dev->intr_handle; + /** + * representor shares dev->intr_handle with PF + */ + if (priv->representor) + return 0; if (!dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.rxq) return 0; mlx5_rx_intr_vec_disable(dev); @@ -982,6 +987,11 @@ mlx5_rx_intr_vec_disable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) unsigned int rxqs_n = priv->rxqs_n; unsigned int n = RTE_MIN(rxqs_n, (uint32_t)RTE_MAX_RXTX_INTR_VEC_ID); + /** + * representor shares dev->intr_handle with PF + */ + if (priv->representor) + return; if (!dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.rxq) return; if (!intr_handle->intr_vec) -- 2.28.0