This new bus takes as devices kernel netdevices. It offers an API for drivers to register a translation layer that would transform the netdev name to one their regular PMD would be able to probe.
This is PoC. It currently only works for MLX4 and MLX5 PMDs as they were bifurcated and had very little work to do otherwise. The planned feature is for at least all PCI drivers, be able to unbind the device from its kmod and bind it to a choosen IO module, prior to probing. Additional possible feature would be a close integration with eventually NCI-like lib, to transparently capture kernel devices, keep a control interface present and bind / unbind the underlying hardware function as necessary. This bus depends on plug / unplug being implemented for the sub-bus (here, PCI or vdev). If new buses wants to be able to capture kernel netdevices this way, they should implement plug / unplug. This patchset depends on: [PATCH 0/8] bus/pci: remove PCI bus from EAL http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24972/ http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/067061.html v1 --> v2: * New xfrm callback type. * System access helpers now exposed. * Fixes a log of edge-cases. * Better mlx4 support with phys port autodetect. * Support new plug / unplug API. * Fixes map files. Gaetan Rivet (4): bus/net: introduce net bus bus/net: implement hotplug bus operations net/mlx4: net bus support net/mlx5: net bus support MAINTAINERS | 6 + config/common_linuxapp | 2 + drivers/bus/Makefile | 2 + drivers/bus/net/Makefile | 66 ++++++ drivers/bus/net/bsd/Makefile | 33 +++ drivers/bus/net/bsd/rte_bus_net_version.map | 14 ++ drivers/bus/net/include/rte_bus_net.h | 205 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/bus/net/linux/Makefile | 35 +++ drivers/bus/net/linux/rte_bus_net.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/bus/net/linux/rte_bus_net_version.map | 14 ++ drivers/bus/net/private.h | 144 ++++++++++++ drivers/bus/net/rte_bus_net.c | 325 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c | 35 +++ drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 9 + mk/rte.app.mk | 1 + 15 files changed, 1116 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/bsd/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/bsd/rte_bus_net_version.map create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/include/rte_bus_net.h create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/linux/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/linux/rte_bus_net.c create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/linux/rte_bus_net_version.map create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/private.h create mode 100644 drivers/bus/net/rte_bus_net.c -- 2.1.4
