From: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: use PCI BDF as the port name
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:23:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180123082348.btfz5hbk72aitosk@laranjeiro-vm.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1516613406-21257-1-git-send-email-yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Hi Yuanhan,
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 05:30:06PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> It is suggested to use PCI BDF to identify a port for port addition
> in OVS-DPDK. While mlx5 has its own naming style: name it by ib dev
> name. This breaks the typical OVS DPDK use case and brings more puzzle
> to the end users.
>
> To fix it, this patch changes it to use PCI BDF as the name, too.
> Also, a postfix " port %u" is added, just in case their might be more
> than 1 port assoicated with a PCI device.
Seems only ixgbe, sfc, szedata2 use it whereas ark, bnxt, mlx4, mlx5,
mrvl, softnic don't.
Why not addressing all drivers at once?
> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-23 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-22 9:30 Yuanhan Liu
2018-01-23 8:23 ` Nélio Laranjeiro [this message]
2018-01-25 15:43 ` Shahaf Shuler
2018-03-01 13:59 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-19 10:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix ICC compilation Nelio Laranjeiro
2018-03-20 23:16 ` Yongseok Koh
2018-03-21 6:16 ` Shahaf Shuler
2018-03-21 9:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-03-27 13:07 ` Shahaf Shuler
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