From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, declan.doherty@intel.com, david.marchand@6wind.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: postpone vdev initialization
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:29:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3518071.fzfrLgvdRN@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161123000740.GA22068@svelivela-lt.caveonetworks.com>
2016-11-23 05:37, Jerin Jacob:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 05:35:58PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 11/21/2016 5:02 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 09:54:57AM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > >> This changes the port id assignments to the devices, right?
> > >>
> > >> Previously virtual devices get first available port ids (0..N1), later
> > >> physical devices (N1..N2). Now this becomes reverse.
> > >>
> > >> Can this change break some existing user applications?
> > >
> > > I guess it may be effected only to ethdev bond pmd based application,
> > > which is broken anyway.
> >
> > My concern is, this may effect the applications that use "--vdev" eal
> > parameter and has an assumption about port assignment.
>
> Not sure. Application expectation on specific port assignment is bad anyway.
> But in any event, what we do with exiting ethdev bond pmd failure.
>
> >
> > And if this breaks any userspace application, does it require a
> > deprecation notice?
>
> I am not sure. Thomas, Any input on this ?
Is the expectation thought by Ferruh, written somewhere?
If not, we can accept this change as is in this release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-23 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-20 8:00 Jerin Jacob
2016-11-20 16:05 ` David Marchand
2016-11-21 5:09 ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-11-21 16:56 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-21 9:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-11-21 17:02 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-21 17:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-11-23 0:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-23 13:29 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-12-03 20:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] " Jerin Jacob
2016-12-03 20:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] eal: " Jerin Jacob
2016-12-03 20:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: rename dev init API for consistency Jerin Jacob
2016-12-05 10:12 ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-12-05 10:24 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-05 14:03 ` Shreyansh Jain
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Jerin Jacob
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model Jerin Jacob
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] eventdev: define southbound driver interface Jerin Jacob
2016-12-19 15:50 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] eventdev: implement the northbound APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] eventdev: implement PMD registration functions Jerin Jacob
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] event/skeleton: add skeleton eventdev driver Jerin Jacob
2016-12-19 11:58 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-18 14:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] app/test: unit test case for eventdev APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-12-19 5:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Shreyansh Jain
2016-12-20 11:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-20 13:09 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-20 13:22 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-01-11 15:52 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-21 14:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] postpone vdev initialization Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-21 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: " Thomas Monjalon
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