On 8/1/2017 5:53 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > The main purpose of this large series is to relieve the mlx4 PMD from its > dependency on Mellanox OFED to instead rely on the standard rdma-core > package provided by Linux distributions. > > While compatibility with Mellanox OFED is preserved, all nonstandard > functionality has to be stripped from the PMD in order to re-implement it > through an approach compatible with rdma-core. > > Due to the amount of changes necessary to achieve this goal, this rework > starts off by removing extraneous code to simplify the PMD as much as > possible before either replacing or dismantling functionality that relies on > nonstandard Verbs. > > What remains after applying this series is single-segment Tx/Rx support, > without offloads nor RSS, on the default MAC address (which cannot be > configured). Support for multiple queues and the flow API (minus the RSS > action) are also preserved. > > Missing functionality that needs substantial work will be restored later by > subsequent series. > > Also because the mlx4 PMD is mostly contained in a single very large source > file of 6400+ lines (mlx4.c) which has become extremely difficult to > maintain, this rework is used as an opportunity to finally group functions > into separate files, as in mlx5. >
Hi Adrien, Thanks for this big clean-up. Patchset does not applies cleanly to latest tree, because of the driver fixes sent after this patchset, can you please rebase patchset on top of latest tree? Thanks, ferruh > This rework targets DPDK 17.11. > <...>
