On 9/9/2017 3:47 PM, Zhiyong Yang wrote: > port_id is currently defined as uint8_t, which is limited to the range > 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev scalability. > > It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from > 1 bytes to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will > be changed at the same time. > > Discussion about port_id is the following thread. > http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/23208/ > > Changes in V2: > 1. cover more PMDs to increase port_id range. > 2. cover more examples to increase port_id range. > 3. add 17.11 release note. > > Changes in V3: > 1. cover mlx4 and mlx5. > 2. add to increase port_id range in test code. > 3. The patch "librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value" is merged > into the patchset. > > Zhiyong Yang (4): > ethdev: increase port_id range > test: increase port_id range > examples: increase port_id range > librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value >
PMD Maintainers, please review this patch for your PMD, this innocent uint8_t to uint16_t change may break your PMD!
