From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA6081B30C for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2017 03:26:57 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga007.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.58]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 21 Dec 2017 18:26:56 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,438,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="4684565" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.241.224.153]) ([10.241.224.153]) by orsmga007.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2017 18:26:56 -0800 To: Wenzhuo Lu , dev@dpdk.org References: <1501529240-64181-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <64738c4e-473f-6b6f-3080-81c4fb765c2e@intel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:26:56 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1501529240-64181-1-git-send-email-wenzhuo.lu@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/3] configurable max queue number per VF X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:26:58 -0000 On 7/31/2017 12:27 PM, Wenzhuo Lu wrote: > Currently, on i40e, the max queue number per VF is set by a macro. > It means the value is decided when compiling. It's not friendly to > the users. Because every time the users want to change the value, > the code need to be re-compiled. > > The reason of using a macro for the max queue number is that the > number is needed at the very early stage. At this stage, we haven't > got the device configuration yet. > There's a simple idea to replace the macro by a global varialbe. > Then the users can set the value without compiling the code again > and again. > > This patch set implements this idea and is an example to show how > to use it. > > Wenzhuo Lu (3): > librte_ether: VF max queue number setting > net/i40e: max VF queue number setting > app/testpmd: a parameter to set max queue per VF RFC seems superseded by https://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/31996/, updating status of set as superseded.