From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jingjing.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:27:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160624092743.GA13464@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466756979-2175-2-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 04:29:38PM +0800, Zhe Tao wrote:
> Add the new floating VEB related arguments option in the devarg.
> Using this parameter, all the applications can decide whether to use legacy
> VEB/VEPA or floating VEB.
> To enable this feature, the user should pass a devargs parameter to the
> EAL like "-w 84:00.0,enable_floating_veb=1", and the application will
> tell PMD whether to use the floating VEB feature or not.
> Once the floating VEB feature is enabled, all the VFs created by
> this PF device are connected to the floating VEB.
>
> Also user can specify which VF need to connect to this floating veb using
> "floating_veb_list".
> Like "-w 84:00.0,enable_floating_veb=1,floating_veb_list=1/3-4", means VF1, VF3,
> VF4 connect to the floating VEB, other VFs connect to the legacy VEB.The "/"
> is used for delimiter of the floating VEB list.
>
> All the VEB/VEPA concepts are not specific for FVL, they are defined in
> the 802.1Qbg spec.
>
> But for floating VEB, it has two major difference.
> 1. doesn't has a up link connection which means
> the traffic cannot go to outside world.
> 2. doesn't need to connect to the physical port which means
> when the physical link is down the floating VEB can still works
> fine.
Does the term "floating VEB" come from the spec you quote above? If not, I think
a more meaningful name might be found for it, given the description of what it
does. I'm not sure how the term "floating" applies to the concept. It seems
more like an "internal VEB".
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-24 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 7:24 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-01-21 7:24 ` [dpdk-dev] PATCH 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-01-21 7:29 ` David Marchand
2016-01-21 7:53 ` Vincent JARDIN
2016-02-03 8:53 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-02-23 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v2] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-02-23 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2 v2] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-02-25 0:55 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-02-23 9:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-02-25 1:15 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-02-25 6:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v3] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-02-25 6:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2 v3] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-02-25 6:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v3] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-02 2:31 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-03-02 8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v4] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-02 8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2 v4] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-03-02 8:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v4] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-23 12:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v5] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-23 12:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2 v5] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-03-23 12:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-03-24 2:31 ` Zhe Tao
2016-03-23 12:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v5] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-24 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v6] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-24 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2 v6] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-03-24 10:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v6] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-25 8:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3 v7] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-03-25 8:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3 v7] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-03-28 2:23 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-03-25 8:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3 v7] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-04-20 7:31 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-25 8:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3 v7] i40e: Add global reset support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-04-20 10:15 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-25 15:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3 v7] i40e: Add floating VEB " Bruce Richardson
2016-04-20 14:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-24 17:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/3] " Zhe Tao
2016-05-24 17:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 1/3] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-09 15:50 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-24 17:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/3] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-09 15:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-24 17:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 3/3] i40e: add floating VEB extension support Zhe Tao
2016-05-30 15:49 ` Peng, Yuan
2016-06-09 15:57 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-24 19:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/3] i40e: Add floating VEB support for i40e Stephen Hemminger
2016-05-25 10:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-31 2:25 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-06-13 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 0/3] i40e: add " Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 1/3] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 2/3] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 3/3] i40e: add floating VEB extension support Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 8:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/3] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 8:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/3] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 8:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 2/3] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 8:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 3/3] i40e: add floating VEB extension support Zhe Tao
2016-06-14 3:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/3] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Wu, Jingjing
2016-06-14 5:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 " Zhe Tao
2016-06-13 21:44 ` Zhe Tao
2016-06-14 5:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 1/3] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-14 5:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/3] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-14 5:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 3/3] i40e: add floating VEB extension support Zhe Tao
2016-06-24 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 0/2] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-24 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-24 9:27 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2016-06-24 11:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-06-26 20:28 ` Zhe Tao
2016-06-24 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 2/2] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 5:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 0/2] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 5:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 5:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v13 2/2] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 7:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 0/2] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 7:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 1/2] i40e: support floating VEB config Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 7:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 2/2] i40e: add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
2016-06-27 13:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 0/2] i40e: add floating VEB support for i40e Ferruh Yigit
2016-06-29 9:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-29 13:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v15 " Zhe Tao
2016-06-29 13:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v15 1/2] i40e: add floating VEB support Zhe Tao
2016-06-29 13:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v15 2/2] i40e: add device args to enable a floating VEB Zhe Tao
2016-06-29 13:47 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-06-29 14:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-01-21 7:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] i40e: Add floating VEB support in i40e Zhe Tao
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