RE: [PATCH v7 3/8] net/gve: add support for device initialization

["Guo, Junfeng" <junfeng.guo@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 17:50
> To: Guo, Junfeng <junfeng.guo@intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
> <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com>; Xing,
> Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>
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> <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/8] net/gve: add support for device initialization
> 
> On 10/21/2022 10:19 AM, Junfeng Guo wrote:
> 
> >
> > Support device init and add following devops skeleton:
> >   - dev_configure
> >   - dev_start
> >   - dev_stop
> >   - dev_close
> >
> > Note that build system (including doc) is also added in this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
> 
> <...>
> 
> > +static int
> > +gve_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
> > +{
> > +       struct gve_priv *priv = eth_dev->data->dev_private;
> > +       int max_tx_queues, max_rx_queues;
> > +       struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev;
> > +       struct gve_registers *reg_bar;
> > +       rte_be32_t *db_bar;
> > +       int err;
> > +
> > +       eth_dev->dev_ops = &gve_eth_dev_ops;
> > +
> > +       if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
> > +               return 0;
> > +
> > +       pci_dev = RTE_DEV_TO_PCI(eth_dev->device);
> > +
> > +       reg_bar = pci_dev->mem_resource[GVE_REG_BAR].addr;
> > +       if (!reg_bar) {
> > +               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to map pci bar!");
> > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       db_bar = pci_dev->mem_resource[GVE_DB_BAR].addr;
> > +       if (!db_bar) {
> > +               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to map doorbell bar!");
> > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       gve_write_version(&reg_bar->driver_version);
> > +       /* Get max queues to alloc etherdev */
> > +       max_tx_queues = ioread32be(&reg_bar->max_tx_queues);
> > +       max_rx_queues = ioread32be(&reg_bar->max_rx_queues);
> > +
> > +       priv->reg_bar0 = reg_bar;
> > +       priv->db_bar2 = db_bar;
> > +       priv->pci_dev = pci_dev;
> > +       priv->state_flags = 0x0;
> > +
> > +       priv->max_nb_txq = max_tx_queues;
> > +       priv->max_nb_rxq = max_rx_queues;
> > +
> > +       err = gve_init_priv(priv, false);
> > +       if (err)
> > +               return err;
> > +
> > +       eth_dev->data->mac_addrs = &priv->dev_addr;
> > +
> 
> [copy/paste from previous version]
> 
> What is the value in 'priv->dev_addr'?
> Even allocating memory for 'eth_dev->data->mac_addrs' removed or not,
> as
> we discussed, independent from it, need to set a valid value to
> 'priv->dev_addr'.

The value in 'priv->dev_addr' is the 'real' mac address of the gvnic port.
So I suppose that there is no need to set a default valid one, since we can
get them/it from the backend in gve_adminq_describe_device(priv).
Thanks!

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