From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>,
Alex Rosenbaum <alexr@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:38:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <221190ed-21a7-9f40-55fb-156c4ecaf787@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180111031820.GR29540@yliu-mob>
On 11/01/2018 03:18, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
[..]
> - Then inside the driver (say, i40e)
>
> * allocate 1 DPDK ethdev port
> * allocate 4 DPDK ethdev port, one for each VF specified by
> the vf_ports option. And these are VF representors.
> * link the VF representors to the right VF port
> For example, for i40e, it should be (from patch 3):
> vf = &pf->vfs[representor->vport_id];
> * set the proper ethdev callbacks for the VF representors.
>
> As you can see, none of above complexity is introduced.
What springs to mind is whether this would end up delegating to the
individual PMDs tasks that in the patchset are handled centrally in the
library. Question is where the balance should be, and as an aside what
should be the base-line requirements for a PMD to be "port representable".
..Remy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 9:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-17 14:42 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] ethdev: added switch_domain and representor port flag Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] lib/representor: port representor library to manage broker infrastructure and representor PMDs Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 23:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 14:57 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] eal: added --enable-representor command line argument in EAL to load representor broker infrastructure Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port representor PMD Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 7:46 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 15:02 ` Remy Horton
2017-12-08 16:56 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 10:08 ` Remy Horton
2017-12-11 15:11 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 15:29 ` Remy Horton
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] net/i40e: Enable port representor PMD and broker for fortville PMD driver Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 7:48 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] net/ixgbe: Enable port representor PMD and broker for ixgbe " Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 19:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] ethdev: added switch_domain and representor port flag Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 15:33 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 13:45 ` Alex Rosenbaum
2017-12-11 18:00 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2017-12-22 15:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2017-12-22 16:37 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-03 12:14 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2017-12-26 13:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Neil Horman
2018-01-03 12:12 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 11:40 ` Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 7:56 ` Xing, Beilei
2018-01-10 10:11 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-10 12:37 ` Xing, Beilei
2018-01-10 14:04 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 7:22 ` Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 14:17 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-09 23:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-10 13:46 ` Doherty, Declan
2018-01-10 19:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-15 12:12 ` Doherty, Declan
2018-01-15 16:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-30 9:23 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-11 3:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Yuanhan Liu
2018-01-11 8:37 ` Alex Rosenbaum
2018-01-11 9:38 ` Remy Horton [this message]
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