Thanks to Helin and Ferruh, I will submit v10 patch following your guide.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Zhang, Helin > Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 2:01 PM > To: Dai, Wei <wei....@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com>; > Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: RE: [PATCH v9] net/i40e: determine number of queues per VF during > run time > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dai, Wei > > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 11:25 PM > > To: Wu, Jingjing; Xing, Beilei; Zhang, Helin > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Dai, Wei > > Subject: [PATCH v9] net/i40e: determine number of queues per VF during > > run time > > > > Without this patch, the number of queues per i40e VF is defined as 4 > > by > > CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_QUEUE_NUM_PER_VF=4 in > config/common_base. > > It is fixed value determined in building time and can't be changed > > during run time. > > With this patch, the number of queues per i40e VF can be determinated > > during run time. For example, if the PCI address of an i40e PF is > > aaaa:bb.cc, with the EAL parameter -w aaaa:bb.cc,queue-num-per-vf=8 , > > the number of queues per VF created from this PF is 8. > > If there is no "queue-num-per-vf" setting in EAL parameters, it is 4 > > by default as before. And if the value after the "queue-num-per-vf" > > is invalid, it is set as 4 forcibly. The valid values include 1, 2, 4, 8, > > 16 . > > > > Signed-off-by: Wei Dai <wei....@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > > --- > > v9: > > v9 = v8+v7, is a complete version for maintainer's convenience. > > v8: > > As v7 patch has been accepted into dpdk-next-net-intel, this patch > > is based on v7 patch. > > add description in i40e document > > fix the last member of valid_keys[] for rte_kvargs_parse( ) > > add RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING for this feature > > v7: > > use the macro instead of natural number > > correct git log message as the EAL parameter is only valid for PF > > v6: > > fix a small bug when detecting end character of strtoul > > v5: > > fix git log message and WARNING of coding stype > > v4: > > use rte_kvargs instead of pervious parsing function; > > use malloc/free instead of rte_zmalloc/rte_free. > > v3: > > fix WARNING of coding style issues from checkpa...@dpdk.org > > v2: > > fix WARNING of coding style issues from checkpa...@dpdk.org > > --- > > config/common_base | 1 - > > doc/guides/nics/i40e.rst | 12 ++++--- > > drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 75 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > > 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > BTW, I think release notes should be updated for your modifications.
