On 4/17/2018 10:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This is a revised version of the Hyper-V native bus (VMBus) > and network device (netvsc) drivers. This virtual device > is used in Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 > and Azure. Most of this code was extracted from FreeBSD and some of > this is from earlier code donated by Brocade. > > Only Linux is supported at present, but the code is split > to allow future FreeBSD and Windows support. > > This version works with upstream kernel (4.16) but in that > mode only a single queue is supported. With additional > patches that are pending for 5.0 kernel, multi-queue > support works as well. > > Device binding is best done via driverctl; this required some > additional fixes to kernel and driverctl to work correctly. > Linux kernel vmbus support needed to support sysfs driver_override > and driverctl needed to handle non-PCI bus from udev. > https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl/merge_requests/3 > > http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2018-April/118889.html > > v3 > - fix documentation to format correctly and include more info > about binding > - fix build on 32 bit > - minor white space and indentation fixes > > Stephen Hemminger (4): > bus/vmbus: add hyper-v virtual bus support > net/netvsc: add hyper-v netvsc network device > net/netvsc: add documentation > bus/vmbus and net/netvsc: add meson build support
Overall this is a bus driver implementation and a net driver implementation, it is not API that effect other part of the DPDK or end user. As long as it is not breaking anything and documented I am for getting the patch as experimental for this release. There are few minor comments on patches.
