Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] config: add Mellanox BlueField ARMv8 SoC

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>]

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 09:51 +0000, Yongseok Koh wrote:
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> > On Jan 9, 2019, at 1:43 AM, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <
> > jerinj@marvell.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 01:32 -0800, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> > > BlueField is Mellanox's new SoC based on ARMv8. BlueField
> > > integrates
> > > Mellanox ConnectX-5 interconnect and Cortex-A72 cores into a
> > > single
> > > device.
> > > 
> > > http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=256&mtag=soc_overview
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > This patch should be applied after
> > > 	"config: gather options for dlopen mlx dependency" [1]
> > > 
> > > [1] 
> > > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpatches.dpdk.org%2Fpatch%2F49502&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cyskoh%40mellanox.com%7C3ff3a3dad47a470bb15d08d67616f2c9%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636826238291242450&amp;sdata=f%2B0Gk34YBuoBRCn%2BMI6p1KLBnqlBWpq4rYyTwg2MsBo%3D&amp;reserved=0
> > > 
> > > config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc | 24 
> > 
> > Please add meson support together in this patch.
> 
> Like I mentioned in the other mail, this CPU has
> Implementor_ID=0x41(ARM)
> and Part_Number=0xd08(Cortex-A72) for now. So, there's nothing to add
> for
> meson build.

Thats with the new changes. Right? I will respond that in other email.


> 
> 
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> > > b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000000..8494a33641
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> > > +# Copyright 2019 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
> > > +#
> > > +
> > > +#include "defconfig_arm64-armv8a-linuxapp-gcc"
> > > +
> > > +# Mellanox BlueField
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_ARM_TUNE="cortex-a72"
> > > +
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES=1
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE=64
> > > +
> > > +# UMA architecture
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=n
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA=n
> > > +
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=n
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n
> > 
> > Does this SoC has external PCIe support? If so, VFIO may be
> > required.
> 
> That's right. Considering a case where other NIC is attached, it
> would be better to delete these three lines.
> Will send out v2.

OK.


> 
> Thanks,
> Yongseok
> 
> 
> > > +
> > > +# PMD for ConnectX-5
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG=n
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN=n