From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20C61B28F for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:54:30 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by orsmga106.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Feb 2018 05:54:29 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,512,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="204141516" Received: from dwdohert-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [163.33.228.230]) ([163.33.228.230]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 14 Feb 2018 05:54:27 -0800 From: "Doherty, Declan" To: Shahaf Shuler Cc: dev@dpdk.org, mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, remy.horton@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, thomas@monjalon.net References: <20180214123244.50967-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:54:27 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180214123244.50967-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors 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: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:54:31 -0000 On 14/02/2018 12:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote: > This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05 > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html > > Cc: declan.doherty@intel.com > Cc: mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com > Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com > Cc: remy.horton@intel.com > > Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler > --- >   doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices >     be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the >     structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on >     platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. > + > +* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port representors > +  as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the different VFs. > +  As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in order to map > +  between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new fields > +  are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct. > Acked-by: Declan Doherty