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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: oss-drivers <oss-drivers@corigine.com>,
	Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@nephogine.com>,
	Chang Miao <chang.miao@nephogine.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] net/nfp: add TLVs capability parsing
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:30:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c88498a1-3779-4af4-b1d5-80654c505314@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR13MB5545BEC2CB2B5B6B930444719EC1A@SJ0PR13MB5545.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

On 9/28/2023 3:02 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
>> On 9/25/2023 7:06 AM, Chaoyong He wrote:
>>> From: Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@corigine.com>
>>>
>>> Add TLV capabilities to the BAR, TLVs is fit for expressing
>>> capabilities of applications running on programmable hardware.
>>>
>>
>> Here application referred is bitstream or FW, right?
> Yes, it is.
> 
>> And PCIe BAR is used to exchange the capability information.
>> Not for this patch, but I wonder is there a value to add this kind of parsing to the
>> PCI code, if it is a generic usage, Chaoyong what do you think?
> Basically, it does have value to do that, the kernel driver already have these logics for a long time and using it for some features.
> For our PMD, it's the first time we import this and the main reason is we need to support the mailbox channel between driver and CoreNIC firmware.
> The mailbox channel is needed for IPsec and other features we will try to merge in the near future.
> 
> I have to admit the ` nfp_net_tlv_caps_parse()` function now seems does have some unrelated logics, I will try to remove them in the next version patch.
> 
> Do you think it's okay?
> 

That is OK, thanks.

And we can consider to move some of the functionality to bus layer when
there are more users of it, I can ask for your help at that time if it
is OK.

>>> Declares a TLV capability start at offset 0x58, up to 0x0d90.
>>> The used space can be wrapped with RESERVED.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shihong Wang <shihong.wang@corigine.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chang Miao <chang.miao@corigine.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
>>>
>>
>> <...>
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-28  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-25  6:06 [PATCH 00/10] add the support of ipsec offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 01/10] mailmap: update contributor entry Chaoyong He
2023-09-27 14:19   ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-09-28  1:50     ` Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 02/10] net/nfp: add TLVs capability parsing Chaoyong He
2023-09-27 14:19   ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-09-28  2:02     ` Chaoyong He
2023-09-28  9:30       ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 03/10] net/nfp: add mailbox to support IPsec offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 04/10] net/nfp: initialize IPsec related content Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 05/10] net/nfp: get security capabilities and session size Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 06/10] net/nfp: get IPsec Rx/Tx packet statistics Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 07/10] net/nfp: create security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 08/10] net/nfp: update " Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 09/10] net/nfp: support IPsec Rx and Tx offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-25  6:06 ` [PATCH 10/10] net/nfp: destroy security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] add the support of ipsec offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 01/10] mailmap: update contributor entry Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 02/10] net/nfp: add TLVs capability parsing Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 03/10] net/nfp: add mailbox to support IPsec offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 04/10] net/nfp: initialize IPsec related content Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 05/10] net/nfp: get security capabilities and session size Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 06/10] net/nfp: get IPsec Rx/Tx packet statistics Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 07/10] net/nfp: create security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 08/10] net/nfp: update " Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 09/10] net/nfp: support IPsec Rx and Tx offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-26  2:49   ` [PATCH v2 10/10] net/nfp: destroy security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-27 14:20   ` [PATCH v2 00/10] add the support of ipsec offload Ferruh Yigit
2023-09-28  2:05     ` Chaoyong He
2023-09-28  9:33       ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-09-29  2:08   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] " Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 1/9] net/nfp: add TLVs capability parsing Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 2/9] net/nfp: add mailbox to support IPsec offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 3/9] net/nfp: initialize IPsec related content Chaoyong He
2023-09-29 10:00       ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 4/9] net/nfp: get security capabilities and session size Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 5/9] net/nfp: get IPsec Rx/Tx packet statistics Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 6/9] net/nfp: create security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 7/9] net/nfp: update " Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 8/9] net/nfp: support IPsec Rx and Tx offload Chaoyong He
2023-09-29  2:08     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] net/nfp: destroy security session Chaoyong He
2023-09-29 10:05     ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add the support of ipsec offload Ferruh Yigit

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