From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4625A057B; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:42:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D36B1AFF; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:42:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from wnew3-smtp.messagingengine.com (wnew3-smtp.messagingengine.com [64.147.123.17]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC9AFEB for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:42:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailnew.west.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EB03EB; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:42:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:42:19 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=bmO2J3zpNcji+LOXWZSryLpqMJJQVQvNMZVfZ2nGY+k=; b=S37L8bKtzStr 1+MJSsQmw2181QD59EXeCn8fRYG14+uPYMNb2LQP+iCZI+XE4M5fRcsxgxvsNQYv dpmmBOBrmdz0gJAeAUxyEKeieDX7Qm+K5nV5o9rmWnRlj/hQzIH2kro2zURoqL8l e6ehl88fecYJOrpkQAmkjhAt5ae6kRo= 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-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=bmO2J3zpNcji+LOXWZSryLpqMJJQVQvNMZVfZ2nGY +k=; b=YYpHFvKS+iUT4SFmlNuKNq+NPCxt8HqSMrsRcGlDJb+nvIMsqqt11UZNP La6QHBXIV68UN8vAWc/4QymNCcFoYKSSPqtPc51QEYF2wkoe4Gmi5V357MYEWZMC dsq6y1QMkFolumIUHP/QEl2hn+i6xfN5Q7JM0cGomp8+lcsB2YqUOqPTmFnGKYGI vIlszgMLKEQEEB4zw862JFRdGMQy/jw8YeaB87/SkW6d4Hs9/avqjpX/H1hY9iXX Zz0SZFgZjondJNXM2yzwyhYxiTATqSflgCPzn60y7T9xeQ5oRk6r18gT85iq6cyZ JbT3XMqovsMgiy9rGhbYyGm32Yvhw== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedugedrudefjedgfedtucetufdoteggodetrfdotf fvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfqfgfvpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgen uceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpefhvffufffkjghfggfgtgesthfure dttddtvdenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhmrghsucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshes mhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenucffohhmrghinhepughpughkrdhorhhgnecukfhppe ejjedrudefgedrvddtfedrudekgeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgr mhepmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvght X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id BF0703280065; Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:42:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, xiao.w.wang@intel.com, xavier.huwei@huawei.com, beilei.xing@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, qiming.yang@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, jerinj@marvell.com, rmody@marvell.com, shshaikh@marvell.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:42:14 +0100 Message-ID: <3077860.AxlXzFCzgd@xps> In-Reply-To: <20200311230136.63452-1-thomas@monjalon.net> References: <20200311230136.63452-1-thomas@monjalon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] refresh NIC features matrix 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: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Ping for review and action on follow-up patches please. I hope we won't have to block patches to get things done. Ferruh, I think we need an action plan. 12/03/2020 00:01, Thomas Monjalon: > This series aims to clean-up the big table of ethdev features: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/overview.html#id1 > > We could reorganize the information in this table, > maybe split it or add/remove some rows. > Before going to such reorganization, we should clean it up. > > The first patch is fixing the look & size of the table with recent sphinx. > > The second and third patches are removing 8 columns which are > clearly unneeded: > - bnx2x_vf > - bonding > - kni > - nfp_vf > - null > - ring > - softnic > - vdev_netvsc > > More columns can be removed by merging PF/VF and vector datapaths. > If a feature cannot be supported in all cases, it should be marked > as partially supported (P). > If a feature is PF-specific (like flow control), that's OK to mark > it fully supported because it's obviously impossible for VF. > There are also some features which were probably marked in some > columns and missed in its VF or vector counterpart. > Please work to merge and drop these 16 columns: > - cxgbevf > - fm10k_vf > - hns3_vf > - i40e_vec > - i40e_vf > - i40e_vf_vec > - iavf_vec > - ice_vec > - igb_vf > - ixgbe_vec > - ixgbe_vf > - ixgbe_vf_vec > - octeontx2_vec > - octeontx2_vf > - qede_vf > - virtio_vec > > The total gain is to reduce the table size from 71 to 47 columns. > > Please send patches for Chelsio, Huawei, Intel, Marvell and virtio.