From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FD62BEF for <dev@dpdk.org>; Mon, 20 Nov 2017 08:46:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Nov 2017 23:46:09 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,425,1505804400"; d="scan'208";a="3799053" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.255.228.253]) ([10.255.228.253]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2017 23:46:08 -0800 To: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org Cc: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>, Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com> References: <1510929733-7225-1-git-send-email-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> <1510929733-7225-4-git-send-email-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> Message-ID: <3098fb7d-02d5-e959-13ae-e9d93cdee0de@intel.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:46:08 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1510929733-7225-4-git-send-email-mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port representor PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 07:46:11 -0000 On 11/17/2017 6:42 AM, Mohammad Abdul Awal wrote: > V2: > Update rte_bus_vdev.h header file instead of rte_vdev.h file. > > V1: > Representor PMD is a virtual PMD which provides a logical representation > in DPDK for ports of a multi port device. This supports configuration, > management, and monitoring of VFs of a physical function bound to a > userspace control plane application. Why we need this PMD? It looks like this has been used only for parameter parsing. Can it be possible to rte_representor_broker_init() will allocate ethdevs and fill brokers with this information? > > Change-Id: I5a7834bbc05bc9037e3218f69f10c1bd1e787236 > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com> <...>