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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal_pci: Fix max_vfs missing for none igb_uio driver
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:50:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUsGP-GOi7buBhaj3B4c67=w413=LqPTJ7G1VVGbdQf4-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423661155-16645-1-git-send-email-michael.qiu@intel.com>

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Michael Qiu <michael.qiu@intel.com> wrote:

> max_vfs will only be created by igb_uio driver, for other
> drivers like vfio or pci_uio_generic, max_vfs will miss.
>
> But sriov_numvfs is not driver related, just get the vf numbers
> from that field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu@intel.com>
> ---
> v2 --> v1:
>         backport for kernel version less than 3.8
>
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> index b5f5410..fcf5511 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_pci.c
> @@ -272,8 +272,16 @@ pci_scan_one(const char *dirname, uint16_t domain,
> uint8_t bus,
>         dev->max_vfs = 0;
>         snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename), "%s/max_vfs", dirname);
>         if (!access(filename, F_OK) &&
> -           eal_parse_sysfs_value(filename, &tmp) == 0) {
> +           eal_parse_sysfs_value(filename, &tmp) == 0)
>                 dev->max_vfs = (uint16_t)tmp;
> +       else {
> +               /* for none igb_uio driver, need kernel
> +                * version greater than 3.8 */
> +               snprintf(filename, sizeof(filename),
> +                        "%s/sriov_numvfs", dirname);
> +               if (!access(filename, F_OK) &&
> +                   eal_parse_sysfs_value(filename, &tmp) == 0)
> +                       dev->max_vfs = (uint16_t)tmp;
>         }
>
>         /* get numa node */
>

I can see a different solution : maybe faking a sriov_numvfs parameter from
igb_uio for kernels that don't have it and doing nothing for kernels that
already provide sriov_numvfs.
But your solution is more straightforward (and we don't need to update
documentation and/or existing scripts afaik).

Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>

-- 
David Marchand

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11 11:10 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Michael Qiu
2015-02-11 12:32 ` David Marchand
2015-02-11 12:41   ` Qiu, Michael
2015-02-11 13:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michael Qiu
2015-02-11 13:27   ` Qiu, Michael
2015-02-12  5:50   ` David Marchand [this message]
2015-02-13  3:01     ` Qiu, Michael
2015-02-13 13:49     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-02-12 16:25   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-02-13  2:56     ` Qiu, Michael
2015-02-13  9:20       ` Thomas Monjalon

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