From: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org
Cc: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:17:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d717bd15-75a5-a995-8912-1bf8783a5c92@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <978cf9ed-2b39-f53e-3203-19f8abc9a584@intel.com>
On 09/01/2018 22:01, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> <...>
>
>> The port representor infrastructure is enabled through a single common, device
>> independent, virtual PMD whos context is initialized and enabled through a
>> broker instance running within the context of the physical function device
>> driver.>
>> +-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
>> | rte_ethdev | | rte_ethdev |
>> +-------------------------+ +-------------------------+
>> | Physical Function PMD | | Port Reperesentor PMD |
>> | +-------------+ | | +---------+ +---------+ |
>> | | Representor | | | | dev_data| | dev_ops | |
>> | | Broker | | | +----+----+ +----+----+ |
>> | | +---------+ | | +------|-----------|------+
>> | | | VF Port | | | | |
>> | | | Context +------------------+ |
>> | | +---------+ | | |
>> | | +---------+ | | |
>> | | | Handler +------------------------------+
>> | | | Ops | | |
>> | | +---------+ | |
>> | +-------------+ |
>> +-------------------------+
>>
>> Creation of representor ports can be achieved either through the --vdev EAL
>> option or through the rte_vdev_init() API. Each port representor requires the
>> BDF of it's parent PF and the Virtual Function ID of the port which the
>> representor will support. During initialization of the representor PMD, it calls
>> the broker API to register itself with the PF PMD and to get it's context
>> configured which includes the setting up of it's context and ops function
>> handlers.
> Above no more true, right?
Right. We will rewrite these parts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-17 14:42 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] ethdev: added switch_domain and representor port flag Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] lib/representor: port representor library to manage broker infrastructure and representor PMDs Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 23:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 14:57 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] eal: added --enable-representor command line argument in EAL to load representor broker infrastructure Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port representor PMD Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 7:46 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 15:02 ` Remy Horton
2017-12-08 16:56 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 10:08 ` Remy Horton
2017-12-11 15:11 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 15:29 ` Remy Horton
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] net/i40e: Enable port representor PMD and broker for fortville PMD driver Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 7:48 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-17 14:42 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] net/ixgbe: Enable port representor PMD and broker for ixgbe " Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-11-20 19:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] ethdev: added switch_domain and representor port flag Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-08 15:33 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-11 13:45 ` Alex Rosenbaum
2017-12-11 18:00 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2017-12-22 15:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [DPDK 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2017-12-22 16:37 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-03 12:14 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2017-12-22 14:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2017-12-26 13:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Neil Horman
2018-01-03 12:12 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 11:40 ` Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:07 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 7:56 ` Xing, Beilei
2018-01-10 10:11 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-10 12:37 ` Xing, Beilei
2018-01-10 14:04 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-08 14:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 7:22 ` Remy Horton
2018-01-09 22:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-10 14:17 ` Mohammad Abdul Awal [this message]
2018-01-09 23:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-10 13:46 ` Doherty, Declan
2018-01-10 19:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-15 12:12 ` Doherty, Declan
2018-01-15 16:09 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-30 9:23 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 15:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: add Port Representor library Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] drivers/net/i40e: add Port Representor functionality Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/5] drivers/net/ixgbe: " Remy Horton
2018-01-10 17:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/5] app/test-pmd: add Port Representor commands Remy Horton
2018-01-11 3:18 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/5] lib: add Port Representors Yuanhan Liu
2018-01-11 8:37 ` Alex Rosenbaum
2018-01-11 9:38 ` Remy Horton
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