On 4/26/2018 11:40 AM, Declan Doherty wrote: > This patchset follows on from the port rerpesentor patchsets and the > community discussion that resulted. It outlines the model for > representing and controlling switching capable devices in a new > programmer's guide entry based upon the excellent summary by > Adrien Mazarguil in > (http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/092513.html). > > The next patches introduce changes to librte_ether to: > 1, support the definition of a switch domain and make it public to > application through the rte_eth_dev_info structure. > 2, Add generic ethdev create/destroy APIs to facilitate and generalise the > creation of ethdev's on different bus types. > 3, Add ethdev attribute to dev_flags to specify that a port is a > representor port and make public through the rte_eth_dev_info > structure. > 4, Add devargs parsing for generic eth_devargs to facilate parsing in > NET PMDs. This will be refactored to take account of the changes in > (http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/092513.html) > 5, Add new API to allocate switch domain ids to devices which support > this feature. > > This patchset also includes the enablement of vf port representor for ixgbe > and i40e PF devices. > > V8: > - add detailed descriptions to switch information structures > - fix err condition checking ethdev create helper function > - fix devargs memory leak and error checking + add documentation on > ethdev args. > - remove rte_eth_switch_domains structure from export items. > > V7: > > This patch address the following changes: > - fixes in documentation patch > - changes the default value of switch domain id to be INVALID to allow > applications to easily identify devices which can/cannot support the > concept. Updates the switch information available through the > rte_eth_dev_info structure. > - remove the rte_ethdev_representor.h header and leave representor > specific initialisation to driver > - add new APIs for allocating and freeing switch domain identifier to > enable PMDs to have unique switch domaind ids without the ethdev > infrastructure placing any restriction on how theses are managed by > devices. > - bug fix in ethdev args parsing code. > > Declan Doherty (8): > doc: add switch representation documentation > ethdev: add switch identifier parameter to port > ethdev: add generic create/destroy ethdev APIs > ethdev: Add port representor device flag > app/testpmd: add port name to device info > ethdev: add switch domain allocator > net/i40e: add support for representor ports > net/ixgbe: add support for representor ports > > Remy Horton (1): > ethdev: add common devargs parser
For series, Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
