From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Chas Williams <chas3@att.com>,
Liron Himi <lironh@marvell.com>,
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] ethdev: add rte_device to port_id function
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:44:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200417134435.53da1af8@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a62bdf6dad57737ffc169e1d2d6717efdec9436d.1587142035.git.grive@u256.net>
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:48:37 +0200
Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net> wrote:
> +/**
> + * Find the owned ethdev port id of an `rte_device`.
> + *
> + * @param dev
> + * An `rte_device`.
> + * @param owner
> + * An owner id. Use `RTE_ETH_DEV_NO_OWNER` for ownerless ports.
> + *
> + * @return
> + * The port id of an `rte_device` if it is owned by `owner`.
> + * `RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS` otherwise.
> + */
> +__rte_experimental
> +uint16_t rte_eth_port_from_dev_owned_by(const struct rte_device *dev,
> + const uint64_t owner);
> +
Ok, but why introduce API with no users?
Also a device could in theory be owned multiple times by the same owner.
For example if two NIC's from same vendor were used in bonding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-17 20:44 UTC|newest]
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2020-04-17 16:48 Gaetan Rivet
2020-04-17 20:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-04-19 19:36 ` Gaëtan Rivet
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