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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-MC-Unique: fttjU7l8OOCKUVkOjadfcQ-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] discussion: creating a new class for vdpa driversxiao.w.wang@intel.com 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" On 12/6/19 10:05 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > On 12/6/19 8:32 AM, Liang, Cunming wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Bie, Tiwei >>> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:28 PM >>> To: Matan Azrad >>> Cc: Wang, Xiao W ; Thomas Monjalon >>> ; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Wang, Zhihong >>> ; Yigit, Ferruh ; Shaha= f Shuler >>> ; Ori Kam ; dev@dpdk.org; Sla= va >>> Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso ; = Olga >>> Shern ; Liang, Cunming >>> Subject: Re: discussion: creating a new class for vdpa >>> driversxiao.w.wang@intel.com >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 01:26:36PM +0000, Matan Azrad wrote: >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> As described in RFC =E2=80=9C[RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devi= ces=E2=80=9D, a >>>> new vdpa drivers is going to be added for Mellanox devices =E2=80=93 m= lx5_vdpa >>>> >>>> The only vdpa driver now is the IFC driver that is located in net dire= ctory. >>>> >>>> The IFC driver and the new mlx5_vdpa driver provide the vdpa ops and >>>> not the eth_dev ops. >>>> >>>> All the others drivers in net provide the eth-dev ops. >>>> >>>> I suggest to create a new class for vdpa drivers, to move IFC to this >>>> class and to add the mlx5_vdpa to this class too. >>>> >>>> Later, all the new drivers that implements the vdpa ops will be added >>>> to the vdpa class. >>> >>> +1. Sounds like a good idea to me. >> +1 >=20 > vDPA drivers are vendor-specific and expected to talk to vendor > NIC. I.e. there are significant chances to share code with > network drivers (e.g. base driver). Should base driver be moved > to drivers/common in this case or is it still allows to have > vdpa driver in drivers/net together with ethdev driver? >=20 That's a good point. For example, for the Virtio vDPA driver, I placed it in th Virtio PMD directory, so that we can re-use the Virtio-pci layer. On the other hand, for the specific Virtio case, it may be preferable to have a common directory. Doing that, the Virtio-pci layer could be reused by Virtio PMD, Virtio vDPA, but also Virtio Crypto drivers. I plan to submit again my Virtio vDPA next week as it didn't make it in v19.11. I'll wait for an agreement on this topic before proceeding. Thanks, Maxime