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From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
To: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port representor PMD
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:08:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dceea290-91f1-df91-47f9-b57a517f2e34@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67194c45-6cba-6706-ab63-c9dfbf9eed0c@intel.com>


On 08/12/2017 16:56, Mohammad Abdul Awal wrote:
> On 08/12/2017 15:02, Remy Horton wrote:
[..]
> I think it possible to create the representor without pulling in driver
> codes. We probably can avoid using the rte_eth_vdev_allocate by calling
> the rte_eth_dev_allocate() directly.

This is my general thinking.


> int
> rte_representor_port_register(const char *devargs);

Question is where this *devargs comes from - I don't think there is 
currently any commandline option to specify a parameter string for PFs.

Could go down the zero-conf route of always creating representors for 
all available VFs, but in that case may as well strip out the parsing code.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 10:08 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 [this message]
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
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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