> -Original Message-
> From: Ye, Xiaolong
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 16:00
> To: Wang, Haiyue
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Zhang, Qi Z ; Yang, Qiming
> ; Xing,
> Beilei ; Zhao1, Wei
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF
>
> On 03/10, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ye, Xiaolong
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 22:07
> To: Wang, Haiyue
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Zhang, Qi Z ; Yang, Qiming
> ; Xing,
> Beilei ; Zhao1, Wei
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF
>
> On 03/10, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>
On 03/10, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>The DCF (Device Config Function) works at the user PF level, it can't
>access the real PF hardware directly. So it will proxy the PF's AdminQ
>command through DCF's mailbox.
Proxy is a noun, so this sentence is a little bit confusing.
Do you mean DCF will rely on the
On 03/13, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
>> struct ice_dcf_adapter {
>>+ struct ice_adapter parent; /* Must be first */
>>+
>> struct ice_dcf_hw real_hw;
>>- struct rte_ether_addr mac_addr;
>
>This one isn't needed at the first place.
My bad, please ignore this comment.
On 03/10, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>The DCF (Device Config Function) works at the user PF level, it can't
>access the real PF hardware directly. So it will proxy the PF's AdminQ
>command through DCF's mailbox.
>
>And the DCF is mainly used to control the flow setting of other VFs, so
>it only needs to in
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