From: "Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>
To: "Bie, Tiwei" <tiwei.bie@intel.com>, Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Wang, Xiao W" <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"Wang, Zhihong" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
Asaf Penso <asafp@mellanox.com>, Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] discussion: creating a new class for vdpa driversxiao.w.wang@intel.com
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 05:32:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0158A423229094DA7ABF71CF2FA0DA34EEDB17A@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191206042745.GA706462@___>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bie, Tiwei <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 12:28 PM
> To: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Wang, Xiao W <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas@monjalon.net>; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Wang, Zhihong
> <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> <shahafs@mellanox.com>; Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Slava
> Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Asaf Penso <asafp@mellanox.com>; Olga
> Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>; Liang, Cunming <cunming.liang@intel.com>
> 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 “[RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devices”, a
> > new vdpa drivers is going to be added for Mellanox devices – mlx5_vdpa
> >
> > The only vdpa driver now is the IFC driver that is located in net directory.
> >
> > 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
>
> Thanks,
> Tiwei
>
> >
> > Will be nice to see your comments.
> >
> > Matan
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 13:26 Matan Azrad
2019-12-06 4:27 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-12-06 5:32 ` Liang, Cunming [this message]
2019-12-06 9:05 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-12-06 10:04 ` Maxime Coquelin
2019-12-06 11:22 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-12-08 7:06 ` Matan Azrad
2019-12-09 7:44 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-12-09 10:41 ` Ori Kam
2019-12-09 11:22 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-12-10 2:41 ` Tiwei Bie
2019-12-10 8:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-12-10 13:24 ` Tiwei Bie
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