From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Hyper-V Netvsc PMD
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:25:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30f5aec8-3653-28cc-270e-493d7cc53eee@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180417215324.8576-1-sthemmin@microsoft.com>
On 4/17/2018 10:53 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This is a revised version of the Hyper-V native bus (VMBus)
> and network device (netvsc) drivers. This virtual device
> is used in Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows 10, Windows Server 2016
> and Azure. Most of this code was extracted from FreeBSD and some of
> this is from earlier code donated by Brocade.
>
> Only Linux is supported at present, but the code is split
> to allow future FreeBSD and Windows support.
>
> This version works with upstream kernel (4.16) but in that
> mode only a single queue is supported. With additional
> patches that are pending for 5.0 kernel, multi-queue
> support works as well.
>
> Device binding is best done via driverctl; this required some
> additional fixes to kernel and driverctl to work correctly.
> Linux kernel vmbus support needed to support sysfs driver_override
> and driverctl needed to handle non-PCI bus from udev.
> https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl/merge_requests/3
> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2018-April/118889.html
>
> v3
> - fix documentation to format correctly and include more info
> about binding
> - fix build on 32 bit
> - minor white space and indentation fixes
>
> Stephen Hemminger (4):
> bus/vmbus: add hyper-v virtual bus support
> net/netvsc: add hyper-v netvsc network device
> net/netvsc: add documentation
> bus/vmbus and net/netvsc: add meson build support
Overall this is a bus driver implementation and a net driver implementation, it
is not API that effect other part of the DPDK or end user.
As long as it is not breaking anything and documented I am for getting the patch
as experimental for this release.
There are few minor comments on patches.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-18 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-17 21:53 Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] bus/vmbus: add hyper-v virtual bus support Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] net/netvsc: add hyper-v netvsc network device Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] net/netvsc: add documentation Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-18 16:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 16:16 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-04-19 12:37 ` Hemant Agrawal
2018-04-17 21:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] bus/vmbus and net/netvsc: add meson build support Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-18 13:25 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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