That's no problem for me to move it to the "network" catalog. Should I generate a new patch?
BR. Xiaohua Zhang -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richard...@intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 6:32 PM To: BURAKOV, ANATOLY Cc: Zhang, Xiaohua; YIGIT, FERRUH; dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] usertools/dpdk-devbind.py: add support for wind river avp device On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 09:57:25AM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: > On 14-Feb-18 12:48 AM, Zhang, Xiaohua wrote: > > Hi Yigit and Anantoly, > > I checked the nics-17.11.pdf, the following is description: > > "The Accelerated Virtual Port (AVP) device is a shared memory based > > device only available on virtualization platforms from Wind River > > Systems. The Wind River Systems virtualization platform currently > > uses QEMU/KVM as its hypervisor and as such provides support for all > > of the QEMU supported virtual and/or emulated devices (e.g., virtio, > > e1000, etc.). The platform offers the virtio device type as the > > default device when launching a virtual machine or creating a > > virtual machine port. The AVP device is a specialized device available to > > customers that require increased throughput and decreased latency to meet > > the demands of their performance focused applications." > > > > I am afraid just "memory_device" will have some misunderstanding. > > Could we put it as "avp device (shared memory based)"? > > > > > > Hi, > > Well, from AVP PMD documentation, it seems that AVP is classified as a NIC. > Can't we just add it to the list of NICs, even if it's not Ethernet > class 0x20xx? Pattern-matching in devbind should work either way. For > example, you can see there's "cavium_pkx" already classified as a NIC, > even though its class is 08xx, not 02xx. So why not this one? > Definite +1. It's used for packet IO into a vm, like virtio, and it's driver is in drivers/net. "If it looks like a NIC, and quacks like a NIC, then it probably is a NIC". [Alternatively if it looks and quacks like a duck, I'm not sure what it's doing in DPDK!] /Bruce
