From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF331A0C49; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E624067C; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3DC4003C for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:33:33 +0200 (CEST) IronPort-SDR: fhib5gj3q3Q8jAYX8M81SSaEV7LZvsbm2TteEsR44wt/97vJ1OxYqia3dqiizTyuAxzQ8HLEwK SWsv8faPTS+Q== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10010"; a="192384176" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,263,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="192384176" Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Jun 2021 03:33:29 -0700 IronPort-SDR: nA161CSyESIloyhKHVbfPsIECx15PX2+l5ZI0DSREe3/3VqdMQN1OR5clB30+U7hAUdEyrzi2s t5lMGIA/vgXQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,263,1616482800"; d="scan'208";a="448670602" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.213.234.247]) ([10.213.234.247]) by orsmga008-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Jun 2021 03:33:27 -0700 To: Xueming Li , Viacheslav Ovsiienko Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon , Chenbo Xia References: <20210527133759.17401-1-xuemingl@nvidia.com> From: Ferruh Yigit X-User: ferruhy Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:33:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210527133759.17401-1-xuemingl@nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] mlx5: support SubFunction X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 5/27/2021 2:37 PM, Xueming Li wrote: > SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own > dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF shares PCI level resources with other > SFs and/or with its parent PCI function. Auxiliary bus is the > fundamental of SF. > > This patch set introduces SubFunction support for mlx5 PMD driver > including class net, regex, vdpa and compress. > There is already an mdev patch, originated from long ago. Aren't subfunctions presented as mdev device? If so can't we use mdev for it?