Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] net/mlx5: support SubFunction representor

["Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

Thanks!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 3:21 PM
>To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
>Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
>Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] net/mlx5: support SubFunction representor
>
>Hi,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Xueming Li
>> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021 4:48 PM
>> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; Asaf Penso
>> <asafp@nvidia.com>
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/9] net/mlx5: support SubFunction
>> representor
>>
>> SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its
>> own dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch
>> representation offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A
>> SF shares PCI level resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function.
>>
>> This patch set introduces SubFunction representor support for mlx5 PMD
>> driver.
>>
>> Version history:
>>  RFC:
>>  	initial version [2]
>>  V2:
>>     - support bonding representor probe with new pf#vf# devargs
>>     - adapt EAL api V2 [3] changes
>>     - update document
>>  V3:
>>     - support list of representor PF section for bonding device:
>>       example: representor=pf[0,1]vf[0-3]
>>     - add bonding information to shared PMD data
>>     - fix setting VF MAC through representor
>>     - fix bonding xstats, sum xstats from PF members.
>>  V4:
>>     - combine unexpected patch, thanks Slava
>>  V5:
>>     - support new ethdev ops api to return representor info
>>     - new api to encode and decode representor ID
>>     - new patch to allow BF2 HPF(-1) probe with sf-1
>>
>> [1] SubFunction in kernel:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201112192424.2742-1-parav@nvidia.com/
>>
>> [2] RFC:
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatch
>> work.dpdk.org%2Fproject%2Fdpdk%2Flist%2F%3Fseries%3D14376&amp;dat
>> a=04%7C01%7Crasland%40nvidia.com%7Ccc705f353dda416b4ba808d8f1f0
>> 3a83%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C1%7C63752536137
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>> nDeyTxdKWgtniUBvn7hJJbREo%2Fh6FqKAV7geFA%3D&amp;reserved=0
>>
>> [3] V2:
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatch
>> work.dpdk.org%2Fproject%2Fdpdk%2Flist%2F%3Fseries%3D14560&amp;dat
>> a=04%7C01%7Crasland%40nvidia.com%7Ccc705f353dda416b4ba808d8f1f0
>> 3a83%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C1%7C63752536137
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>>
>> [3] V3:
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatch
>> work.dpdk.org%2Fproject%2Fdpdk%2Flist%2F%3Fseries%3D14810&amp;dat
>> a=04%7C01%7Crasland%40nvidia.com%7Ccc705f353dda416b4ba808d8f1f0
>> 3a83%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C1%7C63752536137
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>> cdpTSZ3EedX3SpKz7hlbWIxdwCPwEw8nE8%3D&amp;reserved=0
>>
>> [3] V4:
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatch
>> work.dpdk.org%2Fproject%2Fdpdk%2Flist%2F%3Fseries%3D14836&amp;dat
>> a=04%7C01%7Crasland%40nvidia.com%7Ccc705f353dda416b4ba808d8f1f0
>> 3a83%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C1%7C63752536137
>> 3102759%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV
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>>
>>
>> Xueming Li (9):
>>   common/mlx5: sub-function representor port name parsing
>>   net/mlx5: support representor of sub function
>>   net/mlx5: revert setting bonding representor to first PF
>>   net/mlx5: refactor bonding representor probe
>>   net/mlx5: support list value of representor PF
>>   net/mlx5: save bonding member ports information
>>   net/mlx5: fix setting VF default MAC through representor
>>   net/mlx5: improve xstats of bonding port
>>   net/mlx5: probe host PF representor with SubFunction
>>
>>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst                   |  62 +++-
>>  drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_common_os.c |  32 +-
>>  drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c        |   3 +
>>  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.h          |   2 +
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c    | 136 +++++--
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c           | 395 ++++++++++++++-------
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c                    |  24 +-
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h                    |  35 +-
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h               |   4 -
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c             | 149 ++++++--
>>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mac.c                |  23 +-
>>  11 files changed, 652 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>
>Series applied to next-net-mlx,
>
>Kindest regards,
>Raslan Darawsheh