From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] Add missing ethdev driver support
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 12:19:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CC4E41.4040109@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160216105452.0b1da99f@xeon-e3>
On 16/02/2016 18:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:48:12 +0000
> Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Several rte_eth_dev_* functions are currently only supported
>> by the ixgbe NIC driver. This patchset adds driver support
>> for some of these functions to the i40e, virtio, and vmxnet3
>> drivers.
>
> It is good to make drivers more complete and compatible, but unless
> the virtual driver has some useful data I can't see the point of providing
> these functions in this case. The base infrastructure (rte_ethdev) should
> deal with by returning not supported error (or all zeros); rather than
> creating more code in other drivers for no real gain.
Come to the same conclusion regarding the Rx/Tx queue info functions, as
working out how to derive the figures I could return was also baking in
some implicit assumptions. Plan to exclude those ones from the v2.
..Remy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 12:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 8:48 Remy Horton
2016-01-28 8:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] drivers/net/i40e: Add ethdev functions Remy Horton
2016-02-23 2:06 ` Zhang, Helin
2016-02-24 10:32 ` Remy Horton
2016-02-24 10:43 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-01-28 8:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/3] drivers/net/virtio: " Remy Horton
2016-01-28 8:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/3] drivers/net/vmxnet3: " Remy Horton
2016-02-16 23:42 ` Yong Wang
2016-02-16 12:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] Add missing ethdev driver support Bruce Richardson
2016-02-16 18:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-02-23 12:19 ` Remy Horton [this message]
2016-03-04 15:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] " Remy Horton
2016-03-04 15:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers/net/i40e: add ethdev functions Remy Horton
2016-03-04 15:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers/net/vmxnet3: " Remy Horton
2016-03-04 19:12 ` Yong Wang
2016-03-04 20:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-07 12:26 ` Remy Horton
[not found] ` <20160307080747.02cc1f1b@xeon-e3>
2016-03-07 17:06 ` Remy Horton
2016-03-07 19:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-03-09 13:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/1] Add missing ethdev driver support Remy Horton
2016-03-09 13:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] drivers/net/i40e: add ethdev functions Remy Horton
2016-03-10 12:25 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-03-14 10:22 ` Bruce Richardson
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