From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B071B1E20 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:42:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 28 Aug 2017 09:42:35 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,442,1498546800"; d="scan'208";a="123302114" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 28 Aug 2017 09:42:34 -0700 To: Alejandro Lucero , dev@dpdk.org References: <1503591622-16232-1-git-send-email-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:42:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1503591622-16232-1-git-send-email-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] nfp: add pf support X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:42:38 -0000 On 8/24/2017 5:20 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > NFP PMD has just had support for SRIOV VFs until now. This patchset adds > support for the PF, but just for being used as another DPDK port. No VF > management is added by now. > > NFP is a programmable device and it supports virtual NICs (vNICs) through > firmware implementation. Different firmware applications implement vNICs > for PF devices and VF devices, being number of vNICs dependent on the > firmware and the NFP card available. PF vNIC (virtual) BARs are a subset > of PF PCI device BARs while VF vNIC BARs are same than VF PCI BARs. > > Working with VF vNICs requires a PF driver uploading the firmware and > doing some NFP configuration. This needs can be only done with the kernel > NFP PF netdev driver by now. > > Working with PF vNIC requires the PMD doing the NFP configuration and for > accessing the NFP a specific user space interface is created. NFP Service > Processor Userspace (NSPU) interface allows to create specific PCI BAR > windows for accessing different parts of the NFP device, including the > Network Service Processor (NSP) itself. The NSPU interface is implemented > as the base for working with the PF. > > Alejandro Lucero (16): > nfp: add nsp user space interface > nfp: add specific pf probe function > nfp: add support for new pci id > nfp: add nsp support for commands > nfp: add nsp fw upload command > nfp: add nsp symbol resolution command > nfp: add fw upload logic > nfp: add support for vnic config bar mapping > nfp: add support for vNIC rx/tx bar mappings > nfp: support pf devices inside pmd initialization > nfp: allocate eth_dev from pf probe function > nfp: support pf multiport > nfp: add nsp support for hw link configuration > nfp: add support for hw port link configuration > nfp: read pf port mac addr using nsp > doc: update nfp with pf support information For all patches in the set, can you please run the tool ./devtools/check-git-log.sh [1], it checks for some common commit log errors. [1] ./devtools/check-git-log.sh checks the applied commits in the tree and gets commit number to check as parameter: "./devtools/check-git-log.sh -16" for this case.