Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/23] bnxt patchset

[Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:55 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
wrote:

> On 5/18/2017 2:57 AM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> > This patchset amongst other changes adds support few more dev_ops,
> > updates HWRM to version 1.7.5, switches to polling stats from the
> > hardware, support for LRO etc..
> >
> >   bnxt: add various hwrm input/output structures
> >   bnxt: code reorg to properly allocate resources in PF/VF modes
> >   bnxt: add tunneling support
> >   bnxt: support lack of huge pages
> >   bnxt: add functions for tx_loopback, set_vf_mac and queues_drop_en
> >   bnxt: add support for set VF QOS and MAC anti spoof
> >   bnxt: add support for VLAN stripq, VLAN anti spoof and VLAN filtering
> for VFs
> >   bnxt: add support to get and clear VF specific stats
> >   bnxt: add code to determine the Rx status of VF
> >   bnxt: add support to add a VF MAC address
> >   bnxt: add support for xstats get/reset
> >   bnxt: Add support for VLAN filter and strip dev_ops
> >   bnxt: add code to configure a default VF VLAN
> >   bnxt: add support for set_mc_addr_list and mac_addr_set
> >   bnxt: add support for fw_version_get dev_op
> >   bnxt: add support to set MTU
> >   bnxt: add support for LRO
> >   bnxt: add rxq_info_get and txq_info_get dev_ops
> >   bnxt: add additonal HWRM debug info to error messages
> >   bnxt: reorg the query stats code
> >   bnxt: update to HWRM version 1.7.5
> >   bnxt: Add support to set VF rxmode
> >   bnxt: add code to support vlan_pvid_set dev_op
>
> >  25 files changed, 10407 insertions(+), 3036 deletions(-)
>
> Hi Ajit,
>
> This is a big patch, and as far as I can see it does mainly three things:
>
> 1) Update base driver kind of updates (although bnxt doesn't have a base
> ​​
> folder, there are files we can put into this category).
>

Since all the hardware specific code
is abstracted by the HWRM api
​,
we feel doing a base folder will be pretty much another abstraction above
this HWRM.​
​But ​
​I will try to break down the bigger patch
​​
into smaller ones.
​​

Its just that I tried to keep the related code in one patch to keep the
functionality together.

2) Add some new driver features.
> 3) Add PMD specific APIs mainly to control VF from PF.
>
> - Is it possible to group patches in the patchset as above, currently
> patches are all mixed and harder to understand?
>
​I will do my best.
​


>
> - for 3), Some of the PMD specific APIs are common with exiting ones in
> i40e and ixgbe, should we extract them into eth_dev_ops now? @Thomas,
> any comment?
>
> - For 2), can you please update features/bnxt.ini file in each patch
> that adds a feature, to enable that feature in the document. And finally
> a release doc update in separate patch can be good.
>
​Ok. I will work on that.
​


>
> - Some commits has function names updated in the patch subject, can you
> please update them to describe the feature added, function name detail
> can be in commit log. You can use ./devtools/check-git-log.sh to verify
> ​​
> commit logs, there are some set of errors now.
>
​Sure.
​


>
> Thanks,
> ferruh
>