From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com (rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com [173.37.86.72]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA2830D for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 08:05:39 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cisco.com; i=@cisco.com; l=913; q=dns/txt; s=iport; t=1401257151; x=1402466751; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:content-id: content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; bh=tEzZdtNg4m0wHK4tcknO99bzy6ZeXaDPPkKc7tMdTgo=; b=G070Rh6FSFBDitQvZB3SNQ2TLIVNqG4ifd92lxF4Cd2+vcdyClBJMP91 fOUwNkEqrPwG3VboEsQ7eY34WRT4WPlA4D3qw+EVKUF2xfqyyqe0z5YsQ NAUYr2CVCV4Njqkhf1UmOzkqaQLVN5Ktdga1jT+9UFnzr/ZwY6BaCBLJv k=; X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aj8FALF7hVOtJA2F/2dsb2JhbABZgwdSWMIzgQwWdIIsgQsBgQAnBCeILg2hT7NxF4tDAYMQhEUEiWiQDIE9kWqDOIIv X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,925,1392163200"; d="scan'208";a="328237209" Received: from alln-core-11.cisco.com ([173.36.13.133]) by rcdn-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 28 May 2014 06:05:50 +0000 Received: from xhc-rcd-x02.cisco.com (xhc-rcd-x02.cisco.com [173.37.183.76]) by alln-core-11.cisco.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s4S65nhY023563 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 06:05:50 GMT Received: from xmb-aln-x07.cisco.com ([169.254.2.114]) by xhc-rcd-x02.cisco.com ([173.37.183.76]) with mapi id 14.03.0123.003; Wed, 28 May 2014 01:05:49 -0500 From: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" To: "dev@dpdk.org" Thread-Topic: PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission Thread-Index: AQHPejrf8Mi9HRIfxUi+UALiX6ru4w== Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 06:05:49 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.3.9.131030 x-originating-ip: [173.39.24.252] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-ID: <15A3B72D0ED78845B5330637809513D8@emea.cisco.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [dpdk-dev] PMD for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC - Request for guidelines for submission 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, 28 May 2014 06:05:39 -0000 Hi all, We have been working on development of poll-mode driver for Cisco VIC Ethernet NIC and integration of it with DPDK. We would like to submit this poll-mode driver (ENIC PMD) to the DPDK community so that it could be part of the DPDK tree. Could someone please provide the guidelines and steps to do this? As of now, ENIC PMD is being tested with DPDK 1.6.0r2. Is it alright to submit a patch for DPDK 1.6.0r2? One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO. Hope this is acceptable. The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this decision. http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html ENIC PMD uses one interrupt per interface and it is used by the NIC for signalling the driver in case of any error. Since this does not come in the fast path, it should be acceptable, isn=B9t it? Please give your suggestions and comments. Thanks, -Sujith