> -----Original Message----- > From: Tao, Zhe > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 4:51 PM > To: Wu, Jingjing; dev at dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] i40evf: support interrupt based pf > reset request > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jingjing Wu > > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 9:50 AM > > To: dev at dpdk.org > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] i40evf: support interrupt based pf > > reset request > > > > Interrupt based request of PF reset from PF is supported by enabling > > the adminq event process in VF driver. > > Users can register a callback for this interrupt event to get > > informed, when a PF reset request detected like: > > rte_eth_dev_callback_register(portid, > > RTE_ETH_EVENT_INTR_RESET, > > reset_event_callback, > > arg); > > > > Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com> > Two questions, > 1.If the VF RX/TX using msix 1 and Admin Queue using msix 0, how the two > interrupts can both be read in user spaces, in VM VFIO not supported, > If i40e kernel driver is used as host driver, no matter VM VFIO is supported or not, only msix 0 is reserved for DPDK i40e VF. > 2.But if we want to run l3fwd-power in VF, we can only assign the rx/tx intr > to msix0, but both thread will using epoll to wait the msix0 event, and intr > thread may miss the vf reset event if l3fwd-power thread clean the msix0 > related fd firstly if there are no more packets and msg response come in, the > intr thread will not be wake up again Yes, you are right. The same as above answer, if i40e kernel driver is used as host driver, then RX interrupt is not supported.
Thanks Jingjing
