From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: postpone vdev initialization
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUvZZx08qO3e+ZBa5Lrt4T4PyWKPPL70ttZFOiYvL=QGQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479628850-27202-1-git-send-email-jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Jerin Jacob
<jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> Some platform like octeontx may use pci and
> vdev based combined device to represent a logical
> dpdk functional device.In such case, postponing the
> vdev initialization after pci device
> initialization will provide the better view of
> the pci device resources in the system in
> vdev's probe function, and it allows better
> functional subsystem registration in vdev probe
> function.
>
> As a bonus, This patch fixes a bond device
> initialization use case.
>
> example command to reproduce the issue:
> ./testpmd -c 0x2 --vdev 'eth_bond0,mode=0,
> slave=0000:02:00.0,slave=0000:03:00.0' --
> --port-topology=chained
>
> root cause:
> In existing case(vdev initialization and then pci
> initialization), creates three Ethernet ports with
> following port ids
> 0 - Bond device
> 1 - PCI device 0
> 2 - PCI devive 1
>
> Since testpmd, calls the configure/start on all the ports on
> start up,it will translate to following illegal setup sequence
>
> 1)bond device configure/start
> 1.1) pci device0 stop/configure/start
> 1.2) pci device1 stop/configure/start
> 2)pci device 0 configure(illegal setup case,
> as device in start state)
>
> The fix changes the initialization sequence and
> allow initialization in following valid setup order
> 1) pcie device 0 configure/start
> 2) pcie device 1 configure/start
> 3) bond device 2 configure/start
> 3.1) pcie device 0/stop/configure/start
> 3.2) pcie device 1/stop/configure/start
This patch is fine.
It's been a while since I looked at the bonding pmd.
I am just wondering if the bonding pmd should really start its slaves ports.
--
David Marchand
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-20 16:06 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 [this message]
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
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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