-----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:06:52 +0530
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com>
> To: jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com, santosh.shu...@caviumnetworks.com,
> erik.g.carri...@intel.com
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/10] mempool/octeontx: probe timvf PCIe devices
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.16.1
>
> On Octeontx HW, each event timer device is enumerated as separate SRIOV VF
> PCIe device.
>
> In order to expose as a event timer device:
> On PCIe probe, the driver stores the information associated with the
> PCIe device and later when appliacation requests for a event timer device
> through `rte_event_timer_adapter_create` the driver infrastructure creates
> the timer adapter with earlier probed PCIe VF devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
> drivers/mempool/octeontx/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/mempool/octeontx/meson.build | 1 +
> drivers/mempool/octeontx/octeontx_mbox.h | 7 +
> drivers/mempool/octeontx/octeontx_timvf.c | 145
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> .../octeontx/rte_mempool_octeontx_version.map | 3 +
> usertools/dpdk-devbind.py | 8 ++
I suggest to have separate patch for usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
common code change.
> diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> index 18d938607..340643b70 100755
> --- a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> +++ b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> @@ -22,11 +22,14 @@
> 'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
> cavium_pkx = {'Class': '08', 'Vendor': '177d', 'Device': 'a0dd,a049',
> 'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
> +cavium_tim = {'Class': '08', 'Vendor': '177d', 'Device': 'a051',
> + 'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
>
> network_devices = [network_class, cavium_pkx]
> crypto_devices = [encryption_class, intel_processor_class]
> eventdev_devices = [cavium_sso]
> mempool_devices = [cavium_fpa]
> +eventtimer_devices = [cavium_tim]
In order to reduce number of different type of device, IMO, we could
group this also as "eventdev_devices" as it comes as sub device of
eventdev.
ie.
eventdev_devices = [cavium_sso, cavium_tim]
