21/03/2018 14:21, Xiao Wang: > ifcvf driver uses vdev as a control domain to manage ifc VFs that belong > to it. It registers vDPA device ops to vhost lib to enable these VFs to be > used as vhost data path accelerator.
Not everybody work at Intel. Please explain what means ifcvf and what is a control domain. > Live migration feature is supported by ifc VF and this driver enables > it based on vhost lib. > > Because vDPA driver needs to set up MSI-X vector to interrupt the guest, > only vfio-pci is supported currently. > > Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.w...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Rosen Xu <rosen...@intel.com> > --- > v2: > - Rebase on Zhihong's vDPA v3 patch set. > --- > config/common_base | 6 + > config/common_linuxapp | 1 + > drivers/net/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/net/ifcvf/Makefile | 40 + > drivers/net/ifcvf/base/ifcvf.c | 329 ++++++++ > drivers/net/ifcvf/base/ifcvf.h | 156 ++++ > drivers/net/ifcvf/base/ifcvf_osdep.h | 52 ++ > drivers/net/ifcvf/ifcvf_ethdev.c | 1240 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/ifcvf/rte_ifcvf_version.map | 4 + > mk/rte.app.mk | 1 + This feature needs to be explained and documented. It will be helpful to understand the mechanism and to have a good review. Please do not merge it until there is a good documentation.
