From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com (nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com [209.65.160.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541E2C31 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 08:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown [193.34.186.16] (EHLO webmail.solarflare.com) by nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com(mxl_mta-7.2.4-7) over TLS secured channel with ESMTP id bff91185.0.1175821.00-2361.2794160.nbfkord-smmo01.seg.att.com (envelope-from ); Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:34:36 +0000 (UTC) X-MXL-Hash: 58119ffc58980a18-3af77f1457745cf30fc84a476cddb661a5af0a98 Received: from [192.168.38.17] (84.52.89.52) by ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1044.25; Thu, 27 Oct 2016 07:34:08 +0100 From: Andrew Rybchenko To: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:34:04 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [84.52.89.52] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-11.0.0.1191-8.000.1202-22662.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--6.040800-8.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No X-AnalysisOut: [v=2.1 cv=KdTUxFsD c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=8P+NB+fYZDP74ap4g4d9Kw==] X-AnalysisOut: [:17 a=RB3BGLmKESwA:10 a=CH0kA5CcgfcA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a] X-AnalysisOut: [=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=r89km5FwkdQY4qEZ4hkA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10] X-AnalysisOut: [ a=lPkvCiSchXF1W_LyYpoA:9 a=K_CH0pZWvA1YWUTg:21 a=_W_S_7Ve] X-AnalysisOut: [coQA:10 a=IjZwj45LgO3ly-622nXo:22 a=Bn2pgwyD2vrAyMmN8A2t:2] X-AnalysisOut: [2] X-Spam: [F=0.2000000000; CM=0.500; S=0.200(2015072901)] X-MAIL-FROM: X-SOURCE-IP: [193.34.186.16] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: [dpdk-dev] Solarflare PMD submission question 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: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:34:36 -0000 Hi, we would like to include Solarflare libefx-based PMD in the DPDK 17.02 and start the upstreaming process. The driver supports Solarflare SFN7xxx and SFN8xxx families of 10/40 Gbps adapters. The driver has base driver. It is just fresh version of the same code which is used in the FreeBSD [1], illumos [2] and some other Solarflare drivers. The question is how to submit the base driver which is pretty big. Mail size of the patch which imports it is about 2 Mb. Further changes in the base driver will go in small patches (as it is done, for example, in the FreeBSD). The PMD itself is split into small and, I hope, readable and nice patches. [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/sfxge/common/ [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/uts/common/io/sfxge/common/ Andrew.