From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F56F7CC0 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Aug 2017 06:28:37 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,393,1498546800"; d="scan'208";a="301796947" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Aug 2017 06:28:35 -0700 To: Adrien Mazarguil , dev@dpdk.org References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:28:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 00/48] net/mlx4: trim and refactor entire PMD 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, 18 Aug 2017 13:28:42 -0000 On 8/1/2017 5:53 PM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > The main purpose of this large series is to relieve the mlx4 PMD from its > dependency on Mellanox OFED to instead rely on the standard rdma-core > package provided by Linux distributions. > > While compatibility with Mellanox OFED is preserved, all nonstandard > functionality has to be stripped from the PMD in order to re-implement it > through an approach compatible with rdma-core. > > Due to the amount of changes necessary to achieve this goal, this rework > starts off by removing extraneous code to simplify the PMD as much as > possible before either replacing or dismantling functionality that relies on > nonstandard Verbs. > > What remains after applying this series is single-segment Tx/Rx support, > without offloads nor RSS, on the default MAC address (which cannot be > configured). Support for multiple queues and the flow API (minus the RSS > action) are also preserved. > > Missing functionality that needs substantial work will be restored later by > subsequent series. > > Also because the mlx4 PMD is mostly contained in a single very large source > file of 6400+ lines (mlx4.c) which has become extremely difficult to > maintain, this rework is used as an opportunity to finally group functions > into separate files, as in mlx5. > Hi Adrien, Thanks for this big clean-up. Patchset does not applies cleanly to latest tree, because of the driver fixes sent after this patchset, can you please rebase patchset on top of latest tree? Thanks, ferruh > This rework targets DPDK 17.11. > <...>