Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/9] net/ionic: update documentation and MAINTAINERS

[Andrew Boyer <aboyer@pensando.io>]

Please respond to my questions this time. I have ~70 more patches to post by December 20.

> On Dec 9, 2020, at 7:03 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/4/2020 8:16 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote:
>> The UNMAINTAINED flag will be removed in a future patch.
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@pensando.io>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS                        |  3 ++-
>>  doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini |  2 ++
>>  doc/guides/nics/ionic.rst          | 13 +++++++------
>>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> index eafe9f8c4..6534983c1 100644
>> --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -841,7 +841,8 @@ F: drivers/net/pfe/
>>  F: doc/guides/nics/features/pfe.ini
>>    Pensando ionic - UNMAINTAINED
>> -M: Alfredo Cardigliano <cardigliano@ntop.org>
>> +M: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@pensando.io>
>> +M: Pensando Drivers <drivers@pensando.io>
> 
> Same comment from previous version, please don't add group as maintainer, only actual people.

I responded to your original comment about this back in November. Is there an official DPDK policy against doing this? Is it your preference? We would very much prefer to have this in the file as a fallback. As long as there is still at least one person listed, what is the harm?

>>  F: drivers/net/ionic/
>>  F: doc/guides/nics/ionic.rst
>>  F: doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini
>> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini
>> index 083c7bd99..dd29dbed6 100644
>> --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini
>> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/ionic.ini
>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Speed capabilities   = Y
>>  Link status          = Y
>>  Link status event    = Y
>>  Queue start/stop     = Y
>> +Lock-free Tx queue   = Y
> 
> Are you sure this is supported?
> Since it is not advertised as capability, I think this can't be claimed as supported, but still even after this is added as capability, can you please confirm your device supports multiple core enqueue to same queue without locks?

I misunderstood the meaning of this flag, will remove.

>>  MTU update           = Y
>>  Jumbo frame          = Y
>>  Scattered Rx         = Y
>> @@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ Unicast MAC filter   = Y
>>  RSS hash             = Y
>>  RSS key update       = Y
>>  RSS reta update      = Y
>> +SR-IOV               = Y
> 
> Can you please explain what is exactly supported? Like can DPDK drive both PF & VF?

Yes. The PMD does not distinguish between PFs and VFs.

> 
> <...>
> 
>> @@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ IONIC Driver
>>  The ionic driver provides support for Pensando server adapters.
>>  It currently supports the below models:
>>  -- `Naples DSC-25 <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples-25_ProductBrief_10-2019.pdf <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples-25_ProductBrief_10-2019.pdf>>`_
>> -- `Naples DSC-100 <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples_100_ProductBrief-10-2019.pdf <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples_100_ProductBrief-10-2019.pdf>>`_
>> +- DSC-25 dual-port 25G Distributed Services Card
>> +- DSC-100 dual-port 100G Distributed Services Card
>>  
> 
> Same comment from previous version, can you provide link for these devices, it is hard to find the devices from the main site.

And my same response from your previous comment. I do not control the website and do not wish to put stale PDF links in this document, which will live forever. The text includes the URL of the page containing links to the PDFs. Why is this not acceptable?

-Andrew