From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] bnx2x: SR-IOV VF driver changes to support OOB PF driver
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:34:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1974226.3A89DWaups@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D24CFBA0.D45A6%harish.patil@qlogic.com>
2015-10-21 15:24, Harish Patil:
> >
> >2015-09-11 17:42, Rasesh Mody:
> >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
> >
> >Please explain your change a bit more.
> >
> >
>
> SR-IOV is supported using bnx2x poll mode driver running as VF driver and
> native linux driver running as PF (in host/hypervisor). There is no issue
> while running with the PF driver which is at the base version as that of
> PMD. However, there is a compatibility issue between newer out-of-box PF
> drivers with older VF driver. So the newer VFs would also need to send
> BNX2X_VF_TLV_PHYS_PORT_ID (among other TLVs) to differentiate between
> newer and older VFs.
So the title should be "update VF to support new PF drivers".
Please put the detailed explanation in the commit message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-12 0:42 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] bnx2x: Enhancement, fixes, licensing and doumentation Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12 0:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] bnx2x: SR-IOV VF driver changes to support OOB PF driver Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21 15:24 ` Harish Patil
2015-10-21 15:34 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-21 15:42 ` Harish Patil
2015-09-12 0:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] bnx2x: Fix x86_64-native-linuxapp-clang build error Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:11 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-23 16:36 ` Harish Patil
2015-10-23 16:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-09-12 0:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] bnx2x: Add RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_REG_ACCESS config option Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-23 22:28 ` Harish Patil
2015-10-24 13:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-07 3:08 ` Harish Patil
[not found] ` <5600189.IfZWYQEBpk@xps13>
2015-11-08 16:14 ` Harish Patil
2015-09-12 0:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] doc: Add BNX2X PMD documentation Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12 0:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] bnx2x: Add LICENSE.bnx2x_pmd and update source files Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12 1:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] bnx2x: Enhancement, fixes, licensing and doumentation Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-12 2:27 ` Harish Patil
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