On 3/6/2017 10:55 PM, Shrikrishna Khare wrote: > vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes > support for new commands the driver can issue to emulation, change in > descriptor fields etc. This patch series extends the vmxnet3 driver to > leverage these new features. > > Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as > follows: > - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3 > version viz. vmxnet3 version 3. > - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver. > - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number > supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation > to run at that version. > > In particular, following changes are introduced: > > Patch 1: > Trivial cleanup in preparation of version 3 changes. > > Patch 2: > This patch introduces generalized command interface which allows > for easily adding new commands that vmxnet3 driver can issue to the > emulation. Further patches in this series make use of this facility. > > Patch 3: > Transmit data ring buffer is used to copy packet headers or small > packets. It is a fixed size buffer. This patch extends the driver to > allow variable sized transmit data ring buffer. > > Patch 4: > This patch introduces receive data ring buffer - a set of small sized > buffers that are always mapped by the emulation. This avoids memory > mapping/unmapping overhead for small packets. > > Patch 5: > This patch adds reserved commands. > > Patch 6: > In vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation added support for the vmxnet3 driver > to communicate information about the memory regions the driver will use > for rx/tx buffers. This patch exposes related commands to the driver. The > driver is also extended to make use of this feaeture. > > Patch 7: > With all vmxnet3 version 3 changes incorporated in the vmxnet3 driver, > with this patch, the driver can configure emulation to run at vmxnet3 > version 3. > > --- > > Changes in v2: > - updated release notes to document vmxnet3 version 3 support. > - fixed coding style issues identified by checkpatches.sh. > - fixed patch title style issued identified by check-git-log.sh. > - fixed compilation issues hit when debug logging is turned on. > > Change in v3: > - fix a typo in commit message for add receive data ring change > > Shrikrishna Khare (7): > net/vmxnet3: prepare for version 3 changes > net/vmxnet3: introduce generalized cmd interface > net/vmxnet3: variable length transmit data ring > net/vmxnet3: add receive data ring support > net/vmxnet3: add reserved version 3 command > net/vmxnet3: add cmd to register memory region > net/vmxnet3: update to version 3
Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
