From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:49:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140411104929.GA911@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397201813-26627-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com>
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:36:52AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> Instead of having a list of virtual device drivers in EAL code, add an
> API to register drivers. Thanks to this new registration method, we can
> remove the references to pmd_ring, pmd_pcap and pmd_xenvirt in EAL code.
> This also enables the ability to register a virtual device driver as
> a shared library.
>
> The registration is done in an init function flaged with
> __attribute__((constructor)). The new convention is to name this
> function rte_pmd_xyz_init(). The per-device init function is renamed
> rte_pmd_xyz_devinit().
>
> By the way the internal PMDs are now also .so/standalone ready. Let's do
> it later on. It will be required to ease maintenance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
I just posted a patch to separate pmd linkage from the applications yesterday,
which will work with the existing API. See my series on the introduction of the
PMD_INIT and PMD_INIT_NONPCI macros.
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-28 17:25 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/11] eal: allow virtual pmd drivers as shared lib Olivier Matz
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/11] mk: use whole-archive option when creating dpdk binaries Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 13:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/11] devices-args: introduce rte_devargs in eal Olivier Matz
2014-02-28 21:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-03-01 12:02 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-03-01 12:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 13:59 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/11] devices-args: use rte_devargs and remove old whitelist code Olivier Matz
2014-03-01 12:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/11] devices-args: add a dump_devargs command in basic test application Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/11] pci: rename device_list as pci_device_list Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/11] vdev: rename eal_common_nonpci_devs.c as eal_common_vdev.c Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 7:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/11] vdev: rename nonpci_devs as vdev Olivier Matz
2014-04-11 11:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 11:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-11 12:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/11] vdev: allow external registration of virtual device drivers Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 7:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API Olivier Matz
2014-04-11 7:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11 2/2] vdev: allow external registration of virtual device drivers Olivier Matz
2014-04-11 14:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 10:49 ` Neil Horman [this message]
2014-04-11 13:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 15:50 ` Neil Horman
2014-04-11 16:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 17:44 ` Neil Horman
2014-04-11 20:08 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-04-12 6:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-12 11:03 ` Neil Horman
2014-04-12 11:23 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-04-12 14:06 ` Neil Horman
2014-04-14 13:20 ` John W. Linville
2014-04-14 13:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-14 13:54 ` Neil Horman
2014-04-14 14:10 ` John W. Linville
2014-04-14 14:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 14:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/11] device-args: use a comma instead of semicolon to separate key/values Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/11] device-args: replace use-device eal option by pci-whitelist and vdev Olivier Matz
2014-03-01 12:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-03-03 17:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH " Richardson, Bruce
2014-03-04 13:09 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-03-04 13:14 ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-03-24 22:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/11] device-args: allow to provide per pci device command line arguments Olivier Matz
2014-03-01 12:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/11] testpmd: add several dump commands, useful for debug Olivier Matz
2014-03-01 12:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
2014-04-10 14:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
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