From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Gregory Etelson <getelson@nvidia.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, matan@nvidia.com, rasland@nvidia.com,
Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>,
Xueming Li <xuemingl@mellanox.com>,
asafp@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers/net/mlx5: fix representor interrupts handler
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:05:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10191181.MbXHPmhCna@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201117184940.19218-2-getelson@nvidia.com>
17/11/2020 19:49, Gregory Etelson:
> Representor is a port in DPDK that is connected to a VF in such a way
> that assuming there are no offload flows, each packet that is sent
> from the VF will be received by the corresponding representor. While
> each packet that is sent to a representor will be received by the VF.
> This is very useful in case of SRIOV mode, where the first packet that
> is sent by the VF will be received by the DPDK application which will
> decide if this flow should be offloaded to the E-Switch.
>
> Representor shares interrupts handler with host PF over the PCI
> address. Therefore, after PF completes its interrupts handler
> initialization, no additional actions required for representor.
>
> Fixes: 26c08b979d26 ("net/mlx5: add port representor awareness")
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c | 6 ++++++
I don't understand why this patch was in the same series as
the l3fwd-power fix.
So the whole series is delegated to me and I merge both.
Applied
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-22 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-28 9:59 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] " Gregory Etelson
2020-10-28 9:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] examples/l3fwd-power: fix check_ptype query Gregory Etelson
2020-11-04 18:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] drivers/net/mlx5: fix representor interrupts handler Thomas Monjalon
2020-11-17 18:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] examples/l3fwd-power: fix check_ptype query Gregory Etelson
2020-11-17 18:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers/net/mlx5: fix representor interrupts handler Gregory Etelson
2020-11-22 17:05 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-11-22 17:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] examples/l3fwd-power: fix check_ptype query Thomas Monjalon
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