From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7B367E23 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:13:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by wggz12 with SMTP id z12so4312692wgg.2 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:13:42 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=FbSIzmuYQochv6xHRhfh+I3+7prxDw0aSQojvPJuCrk=; b=BRGCKxmW+1Ju2zJq44WNiy6MbBdIDUM/2nDSFq24SXKgrqZGQOy21RitbkZZ7d5rNx CkjMdhaGUITo+leKemg3D/YXlD4chVhxkk3vV9dYAmkeDMjbfyIfKJRbop8k5GFnCXHA jAP/bQ1Jne2l5sXEwMLJ44Z+YDtsfOajqaj0DUMZ+zKEie517133+7ZNf1Wbj/OAUVRi /DaSK/pET3fEWNzNpSTcWJ2HK6RtMkBCsasKt1yotkFblFOKa2xztnA44HK3Upa7j3kx lU7yC1Vby/XtSsvAG6KsexdhjlDzOX1+qztuVhmybfcufxhCFB5fwubtYDRUQvKdPoPi d5Dw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkQZD6FNk41qPf1/P5UwwXoYkStpG/pLHXtevMDTag4omUnoHNNrsHc6awxNT03qdKLP9P2 X-Received: by 10.194.71.175 with SMTP id w15mr7063219wju.16.1424877222478; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:13:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ub1sm65248782wjc.43.2015.02.25.07.13.41 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 07:13:41 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Adrien Mazarguil Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:13:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3626271.e6VlYANmeM@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.4 (Linux/3.18.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1424872326-17930-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> References: <1424492174-27072-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <1424872326-17930-1-git-send-email-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] Mellanox ConnectX-3 PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:13:42 -0000 > 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).