From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f53.google.com (mail-wm0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEFB2E41 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f53.google.com with SMTP id p138so16036780wmb.1 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:23:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=dfY0MZAaD4oO+GU4M4Ep2YaQwSN5mwv6fG1Riex+wsQ=; b=JDDjQbJjySnzBpuqEU0V/WtTm/BsM7JmVNtBJyJ3lCKEUg2pEbBCEyYAsZe8BCjhZ6 pPguU3p0DgFD57aIAQsneY9y6N2PX0SlJv5av5wgYCoxJDxSTCd+LRKG5LuTmboweSkG sq7Nl+tmxP0Uw58cgvpGb6tQN439RbiqrY5RrAn+VGyI1fZCRwxvYWk/blkKpbBoJ8hN 573Jai5ML9FYN3fjlBh5m4D7xitsTUPIG7J2IQe/5MoJeZanKwBVGqT1CzUaOMIpjfLZ qYJS80rTZeJlAFNp9uxG9U1tk7dyshjCrec7ozC7bfGhBi/nMR7sAhx+n8o+R0lFViD8 tb3Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=dfY0MZAaD4oO+GU4M4Ep2YaQwSN5mwv6fG1Riex+wsQ=; b=mK3OMYf6RmpxQt8/OUl4W4cXNDjsjVm+dcMoidAeUw4WLRyMZn1EmY9UgtLyk/caEf qz3IEvzbhOc8DCfFZoU313Ma50rtagkkk9uZu6IOm0zM0x9YcTCK/PBPTkJvd5uraZQQ dZt9Qfw11Bnr8Y1KtWF40CxX07L9/M7hLLJ6gwh5ieo74uTeRGRvGN3/2woRd7/Kt/s6 5EljacO3X1wzWGyttZEadz6RQlwKzBJj/PvJ6mQKDuLSgU0M2387khc4HriB7sp5zjel cRHlx05b+0bv9n2blfBMv3aoHGm/8eoyRU1xiN7pfdJv0pVKxJKfb3sopNcpwyf3MVUU M3hA== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RnC0J/q/UYIqRBVgPMUNhtXYAePGfMqFnhiPqL7KCgBcBX8Y4Qbnn/ciE1ozHNUag9L0eeI+xJ5Kg2YFMaJ X-Received: by 10.194.104.106 with SMTP id gd10mr6241423wjb.26.1475230993281; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:23:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.28.95.130 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:22:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1474375296-26078-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> References: <1466510566-9240-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> <1474375296-26078-1-git-send-email-shreyansh.jain@nxp.com> From: David Marchand Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:22:52 +0200 Message-ID: To: Shreyansh Jain Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" , Jan Viktorin , hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, Thomas Monjalon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 00/24] Introducing rte_driver/rte_device generalization X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:23:13 -0000 Hello, On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Shreyansh Jain wrote: > Based on master (e15922d75) > > Background: > =========== > > It includes two different patch-sets floated on ML earlier: > * Original patch series is from David Marchand [1], [2]. > `- This focused mainly on PCI (PDEV) part > `- v7 of this was posted by me [8] in August/2016 > * Patch series [4] from Jan Viktorin > `- This focused on VDEV and rte_device integration > > Introduction: > ============= > > This patch series introduces a generic device model, moving away from PCI > centric code layout. Key change is to introduce rte_driver/rte_device > structures at the top level which are inherited by > rte_XXX_driver/rte_XXX_device - where XXX belongs to {pci, vdev, soc (in > future),...}. > > Key motivation for this series is to move away from PCI centric design of > EAL to a more hierarchical device model - pivoted around a generic driver > and device. Each specific driver and device can inherit the common > properties of the generic set and build upon it through driver/device > specific functions. [snip] > Changes since v10: > - Rebased over master (e15922d75) > - Removed patch for container_of posted in v10 (01/25) > - Fix review comments from David: [10] For the series. Acked-by: David Marchand Thanks Shreyansh. -- David Marchand