On 2021/9/6 10:03, Xia, Chenbo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 8:59 PM
>> To: fengchengwen <fengcheng...@huawei.com>; Richardson, Bruce
>> <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun...@intel.com>
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>> Konstantin <konstantin.anan...@intel.com>; Walsh, Conor
>> <conor.wa...@intel.com>; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo....@intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 8/8] maintainers: add for dmadev
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 9/2/21 3:39 PM, fengchengwen wrote:
>>> Fix in v19
>>>
>>> I think there many patches wait for dmadev framework upstream, so
>>> could you help review unreviewd patches (like dma/skeleton and app/test)?
>>
>> Thanks for all the work, it looks really promising!
>>
>>> Also, we have developed the dma driver for hisilicon, and corresponding test
>>> app (like examples/vhost and testpmd) is being developed.
>>>
>>> examples/vhost: will extend support dmadev type.
>>
>> I think Sunil has posted RFC for Vhost lib and example, you might want
>> to have a look to avoid duplicate work.
>>
>>> testpmd: will introduces some dma control commands and the dma forwarding
>> mode.
>>>          the dma forwarding mode process:
>>>               // 1st: call rte_eth_rx_burst
>>>               // 2st: post received packet to dma, move data to another
>> packet
>>>               // 3st: set newcopyed rte_mbuf header
>>>               // 4st: free received packet
>>>               // 5st: get dma completed request and associate it rte_mbuf
>>>               // 6st: send 5st's rte_mbuf to nic
>>>
>>> @Maxime @Chenbo @Xiaoyun Like to hear your opinion.
>>
>> We might also think of adding async support to Vhost PMD, that would be
>> another way to test dmadev with testpmd.
> 
> +1 for this. I would prefer support in vhost pmd so that it could be tested 
> with
> testpmd.
> 
> About the testpmd patches, if it's for testing dma device itself, usually we 
> create a new
> app (now testpmd only tests ethdev). If vhost pmd also needs some user input, 
> just
> make it a devarg. Make sense to you?

Got it, thanks

> 
> Thanks,
> Chenbo
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Maxime
>>
>>>
>>> On 2021/9/2 19:51, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 06:54:17PM +0800, Chengwen Feng wrote:
>>>>> This patch add myself as dmadev's maintainer and update release notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> ---
>>>>
>>>> Just in case you are doing any further revisions of this patchset, the
>>>> maintainers entry, and RN entry, generally is added in the first patch, so
>>>> squash this patch into patch #1.
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>
> 

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