Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Mellanox ConnectX-3 PMD

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

> This PMD adds support for Mellanox ConnectX-3-based adapters through the
> verbs framework. It relies on external libraries (libibverbs and user space
> driver libmlx4) and kernel support to do so.
> 
> While these libraries and kernel modules are available on OpenFabrics
> Alliance's website [1] and provided by package managers on most
> distributions, this PMD requires Ethernet extensions that may not be
> supported at the moment (this is a work in progress).
> 
> Mellanox OFED [2] includes the necessary support and should be used in the
> meantime. For DPDK, only libibverbs, libmlx4 and mlnx-ofed-kernel packages
> are required from that distribution.
> 
> The following kernel modules must be loaded before using this PMD:
> 
> - mlx4_core (hardware driver, does global initialization)
> - mlx4_en (Ethernet device driver)
> - mlx4_ib (InfiniBand device driver)
> - ib_uverbs (user space driver for verbs)
> 
> [1] https://www.openfabrics.org/
> [2] http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers
> 
> v2:
>  - Include minor bugfix for VLAN filtering.
>  - Add maintainers entry.
>  - Add documentation.
> 
> v3:
>  - Add script and documentation to MAINTAINERS.
>  - Make cosmetic changes to copyright notices.
>  - Remove unwanted executable bits.
>  - Fix coding style and typos found by checkpatch.
>  - Add shared library compilation support.
> 
> Adrien Mazarguil (3):
>   scripts: check features to generate configuration header
>   mlx4: new poll mode driver
>   doc: add librte_pmd_mlx4 documentation

Applied, thanks

Documentation should be moved in a NICs guide (work in progress).