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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"Shah, Rahul R" <rahul.r.shah@intel.com>,
	"Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>, azelezniak <alexz@att.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] librte_ether: add API's for VF management
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:04:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3664576.rt1sgYQyhm@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CEF83825BEC744B83065625E567D7C21A08123A@IRSMSX108.ger.corp.intel.com>

2016-09-15 16:46, Iremonger, Bernard:
> > > > Do we really need to expose VF specific functions here?
> > > > It can be generic(PF/VF) function indexed only through port_id.
> > > > (example: as rte_eth_dev_set_vlan_anti_spoof(uint8_t port_id,
> > > > uint8_t on)) For instance, In Thunderx PMD, We are not exposing a
> > > > separate port_id for PF. We only enumerate 0..N VFs as 0..N ethdev
> > > > port_id
> > >
> > > Our intention with this patch is to control the VF from the PF.
> > >
> > > The following librte_ether functions already work in a similar way:
> > >
> > > rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rxmode(uint8_t port_id,  uint16_t vf, uint16_t
> > > rx_mode, uint8_t on)
> > >
> > > rte_eth_dev_set_vf_rx(uint8_t port_id, uint16_t vf, uint8_t on)
> > >
> > > rte_eth_dev_set_vf_tx(uint8_t port_id, uint16_t vf, uint8_t on)
> > >
> > > int rte_eth_set_vf_rate_limit(uint8_t port_id, uint16_t vf, uint16_t
> > > tx_rate, uint64_t q_msk)
> > 
> > I have a bad feeling with these functions dedicated to VF from PF.
> > Are we sure there is no other way?
> > I mean we just need to know the VF with a port ID.
> 
> When the VF is used in a VM the port ID of the VF is not visible to the PF.
> I don't think there is another way to do this.

I don't understand why we could not assign a port id to the VF from the
host instead of having the couple PF port id / VF id.
Can we enumerate all the VFs associated to a PF?
Then can we allocate them a port id in the array rte_eth_devices?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-18 13:48 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/5] " Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-18 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/5] librte_ether: add internal callback functions Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-18 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/5] net/ixgbe: add callback to user app on VF to PF mbox msg Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-18 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/5] librte_ether: add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-18 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/5] net/ixgbe: add functions " Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-18 13:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 5/5] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-26  9:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-26  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 1/5] librte_ether: add internal callback functions Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-09 14:10     ` Jerin Jacob
     [not found]       ` <3C0218D8B3DD114D8DBFE6B68141FBE3185F9FE7@MISOUT7MSGUSRDI.ITServices.sbc.com>
2016-09-13  8:45         ` Jerin Jacob
     [not found]           ` <3C0218D8B3DD114D8DBFE6B68141FBE3185FDCDC@MISOUT7MSGUSRDI.ITServices.sbc.com>
2016-09-14 11:28             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-09-22 11:25               ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-10-03  8:58               ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-08-26  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 2/5] net/ixgbe: add callback to user app on VF to PF mbox msg Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-26  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] librte_ether: add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-09 14:22     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-09-12 16:28       ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-13  9:24         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-15 16:46           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-22 17:04             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-09-23  9:20               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-23  9:36                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-23  9:53                   ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-09-23 13:15                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-23 17:02                       ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-23 17:18                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-26 15:37                           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-26 16:59                             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-27 10:31                               ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-27 13:01                                 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-27 14:13                                   ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-28 11:23                                     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-09-28 12:31                                       ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-28 13:01                                       ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-09-28 13:03                                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-28 13:26                                         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-09-28 14:24                                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-28 14:30                                             ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-09-28 14:48                                               ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-28 15:00                                                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-28 15:24                                                   ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-28 14:59                                               ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-28 16:52                                                 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-09-28 18:02                                                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-30  9:21                                                     ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-23 10:34                   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-08-26  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 4/5] net/ixgbe: add functions " Bernard Iremonger
2016-08-26  9:10   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 5/5] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-11 12:35     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-12 15:57       ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-13  4:34         ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-13  8:38           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-13  8:42             ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-07  9:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] add API's for VF management Pattan, Reshma
2016-09-09  8:49   ` Pattan, Reshma
2016-09-09 13:02     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-16 11:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 11:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] librte_ether: " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 11:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] net/ixgbe: add functions " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 11:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 14:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-21 10:20     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-29 14:16       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-30 10:30         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-30 10:30         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/2] net/ixgbe: " Bernard Iremonger
2016-10-07 10:45           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 0/2] " Bernard Iremonger
2016-10-07 10:45           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/2] net/ixgbe: " Bernard Iremonger
2016-10-07 10:45           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/2] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-10-11 15:09             ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-10-11 15:41               ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-11 15:51                 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-10-11 16:32                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-11 16:35                     ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-10-12  2:05                       ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-10-12 15:00                         ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-30 10:30         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-29 14:16       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] librte_ether: add API for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-29 14:30         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-29 15:16           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-29 16:19             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-29 16:38               ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-29 16:45                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-29 14:16       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/3] net/ixgbe: add API's " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-29 16:11         ` Reshma Pattan
2016-09-29 16:32           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-29 16:16         ` Pattan, Reshma
2016-09-29 16:30           ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-29 14:16       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/3] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-21 10:20     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/3] librte_ether: add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-21 10:20     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] net/ixgbe: add functions " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-21 10:20     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/3] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 14:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] librte_ether: add API's for VF management Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 14:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] net/ixgbe: add functions " Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-16 14:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Bernard Iremonger
2016-09-28 19:25 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] librte_ether: add API's for VF management ZELEZNIAK, ALEX

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