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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] kni: add API to set link status on
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On 10/22/2018 2:08 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 22/10/2018 15:03, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 10/19/2018 1:23 AM, Dan Gora wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Attached is version 5 of a patchset to add a new API function to
>>> set the link status on kernel interfaces created with the KNI kernel
>>> module.
>>>
>>> v5
>>> ====
>>> * Update Kernel NIC Interface document with new rte_kni option, move
>>>   kernel module parameter description here from KNI sample app
>>>   document, general cleanup.
>>>
>>> * Update Kernel NIC Interface sample application (kni) document
>>>   with new command line parameter, remove documentation for rte_kni
>>>   kernel module but add reference to it, general cleanup.
>>>
>>> * Change link status change sample rate for KNI example app to 500ms
>>>   from 100ms.
>>>
>>> * Fix bug in parameter parsing in v4 in rte_kni kernel module.
>>>
>>> * Fix output formatting of optional parameters for rte_kni with
>>>   modinfo.
>>>
>>> * Fix permissions of optional parameters for rte_kni.
>>>
>>> * Squash patch to add test for rte_kni_update_link into patch
>>>   introducing the API function.
>>>
>>>> v4
>>>> ====
>>>> * Rework rte_kni_update_link to only take linkup/linkdown as parameter,
>>>>   return previous link state, and remove log messages.
>>>>
>>>> * Update patch to set default carrier state to make default carrier
>>>>   state configurable by passing the 'carrier=[on|off]' option to
>>>>   the rte_kni kernel module.  This is necessary in order to allow
>>>>   applications which use KNI as pure virtual interfaces without
>>>>   corresponding physical ethernet port to use the interfaces without
>>>>   having to set the carrier state to 'on' via rte_kni_update_link()
>>>>   or by writing to /sys/devices/virtual/net/<ifaceX>/carrier.
>>>>   Note that the default is 'off'.
>>>>
>>>> * Add command line flag '-m' to examples/kni to continuously monitor
>>>>   and update the KNI interface link status according to the link
>>>>   status of the corresponding physical ethernet port.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> v3
>>>> ====
>>>> * Use separate function to test rte_kni_update_link() in 'test' app.
>>>>
>>>> * Separate changes to 'test' app into separate patch to facilitate
>>>>   possible merge with https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/44730/
>>>>
>>>> * Remove changes to set KNI interfaces to 'up' in example/kni
>>>>
>>>> v2
>>>> ====
>>>>
>>>> * Fix bug where "Fixed" and "AutoNeg" were transposed in the link
>>>>   status log message.
>>>>
>>>> * Add rte_kni_update_link() to rte_kni_version.map
>>>>
>>>> * Add rte_kni_update_link() tests to kni_autotest
>>>>
>>>> * Update examples/kni to continuously monitor link status and
>>>>   update the corresponding kernel interface with
>>>>   rte_kni_update_link().
>>>>
>>>> * Minor improvements to examples/kni: Add log message showing how
>>>>   to show/zero stats.  Improve zeroing statistics.
>>>>
>>>> Note that checkpatches.sh compains about patch 1/5, but this appears
>>>> to be a bug with check-symbol-change or something.  If I move the
>>>> fragment of the patch modifying rte_kni_version.map to the bottom of
>>>> the patch file, it doesn't complain any more...  I just don't really
>>>> have time to investigate this right now.
>>>   
>>> thanks
>>> dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan Gora (5):
>>>   kni: add API to set link status on kernel interface
>>>   kni: set default carrier state of interface
>>>   examples/kni: monitor and update link status continually
>>>   examples/kni: add log msgs to show and clear stats
>>>   examples/kni: improve zeroing statistics
>>
>> Thanks for the document clean up.
>>
>> For series,
>> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>
>>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> There is a possible doc update, what do you think fixing it while applying? Or
>> do you require a new version?
> 
> What is the update to do?

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