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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Finn Christensen <fc@napatech.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>,
	Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
	Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>,
	Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] standardize device identification
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:01:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2746853.LkVxvJSmNi@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4e698540a754f6a830621ef0a859712@napatech.com>

05/01/2018 12:09, Finn Christensen:
> From: Thomas Monjalon
>     Which property can help to distinguish Napatech ports?
>     Can you use class=eth,dev_port=X ?
>     The dev_port property will use /sys/class/net/DEV/dev_port on Linux. Is it
>     OK for you?
> 
> Actually, what we were thinking of was using the mac property in the class
> category to distinguish our ports.
> For instance:
> -w bus=pci,id=0000:01:00.0/class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55
> or simply:
> -w class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55

The problem with the mac property is that it cannot be used for
white/blacklisting in DPDK because the MAC is not known before
port initialization.

> We will not be able to support the dev_port property, that will not work for us.
> At least not for now.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-05 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30  7:35 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] ether: standardize getting the port by name Yuanhan Liu
2017-11-30 17:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 17:35   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-30 21:21     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-30 21:44       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-01  9:47         ` Gaëtan Rivet
2017-12-04 13:55           ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-12-05 11:04             ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-12-05 13:20               ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-05 13:58                 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-12-05 15:28                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-05 17:22                     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-12-06 15:49                       ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-12-18 22:25                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-18 22:30                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-18 22:41                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-18 23:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-20 22:02   ` [dpdk-dev] standardize device identification Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-22  7:01     ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-12-22  9:00       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05  7:52     ` Finn Christensen
2018-01-05  8:39       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05 11:09         ` Finn Christensen
2018-01-05 12:01           ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-01-05 14:14             ` Finn Christensen
2018-01-05 15:34               ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05 20:32                 ` Finn Christensen
2018-01-16 20:20 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] ether: standardize getting the port by name Ferruh Yigit

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