From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BAC14EC for ; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:09:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F512062B; Wed, 10 May 2017 05:09:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 10 May 2017 05:09:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=TNMoh62DnXzt1B0 I0pvOreTU6d1ijDqmChDn6M/A9/c=; b=ohHdoAvilX6zzKcYlL8n63Ib6V9Dy2d BwqJnGMdHdgq805GO8CDnEwY24C2ZaPJdsuDMTlMEnFLFHSLhqSvelds1OESXa0c 3JT2DKfuo6pTqgueYqsjMkgQbXqjWn+OQr7L7lrxjxp0DUUM34SBbdGx8ts82hd9 IrtTiHxY9t+U= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=TNMoh62DnXzt1B0I0pvOreTU6d1ijDqmChDn6M/A9/c=; b=n+h5MGyp /hDg8BAs/qQpSd84TEznJRxhldsP1v3YVFnYy2jsJJ5eKbFUco54fPlaRhtYQOMZ FSVfCDP/NFsApa0uZxP02oGsFTGO9WG7wjH7dyHJWL083iKIybXurMH9IH/HuxZe FrvGig9Idu8agAOT9SWoXrRZ2aB8pm5be0oyWslmlM5eXA+Uiq8cWNPB2inTaUdN cd9+Dnizuo5sBDbzL6T8y0Cj+HXxqRqt589RhpJ2FQU2dM6QN+Q4cyYtrZSq2/nN 5stcn70/5W3YXSKEFZ8nHCDKtn2w2dBHB9FUv6Y/LANlW3HtG80VzZ2E6Wm6G7fq 458hBRWCi6MiGw== X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: I+Ef2jL09e7Y5JHEFi5l1vcPxyKyEuepzJU0WS96XOYZ 1494407376 Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4A15E24929; Wed, 10 May 2017 05:09:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Radu Nicolau Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 11:09:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1571308.M4Vgp8n44D@xps> In-Reply-To: <1494341879-18718-3-git-send-email-radu.nicolau@intel.com> References: <1494341879-18718-1-git-send-email-radu.nicolau@intel.com> <1494341879-18718-3-git-send-email-radu.nicolau@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC][PATCH 2/5] pci: allow shared device instances. X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:09:37 -0000 Hi, 09/05/2017 16:57, Radu Nicolau: > Updated PCI initialization code to allow devices to be shared across multiple PMDs. > > Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau I was waiting the day when we have a device shared by two different interfaces. Note that some Mellanox and Chelsio devices already instantiate two ethdev ports per PCI device. Please explain your idea behind this "shared" flag. What is your exact need? Do you think it is the best solution?