From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Ed Czeck <ed.czeck@atomicrules.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Shepard Siegel <shepard.siegel@atomicrules.com>,
John Miller <john.miller@atomicrules.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/7] net/ark: Arkville PMD component integration
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:34:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4fa61fe-13cd-18ec-18a1-7444111efcea@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALZ3Gug4vAujN0+yMoVEnKisWDD0XgVhfuPsHw=oc2TmrgHWHA@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/23/2017 10:19 PM, Ed Czeck wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com
> <mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com>> wrote:
>>
>
>> >
>> > +static
>> > +int
>>
>> Can be in same line.
> Fixed
>
>>
>> > +check_for_ext(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused,
>> > + struct ark_adapter *ark __rte_unused)
>>
>> __rte_unused can go away
> Fixed
>
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Can you give some more details on "user extension" that loaded
> dynamically?
>>
>> How much the driver depends on it, what happens if the library is missing?
>>
>> And how do you deliver that shared library?
>>
> Dynamic libraries arem optional user provided extensions to the PMD. The
> driver funcations correctly without one. Here is the blurb from our
> doc file: doc/guides/nics/ark.rst
>
> The ARK PMD user extensions are a feature of Arkville’s DPDK
> net/ark poll mode driver, allowing users to add their
> own code to extend the net/ark functionality without
> having to make source code changes to the driver. One motivation for
> this capability is that while DPDK provides a rich set of functions
> to interact with NIC-like capabilities (e.g. MAC addresses and statistics),
> the Arkville RTL IP does not include a MAC. Users can supply their
> own MAC or custom FPGA applications, which may require control from
> the PMD. The user extension is the means providing the control
> between the user's FPGA application and the existing DPDK features via
> the PMD.
There is no discussion related to this dependency, I guess we can
continue to reviewing patches.
Anyone believes this must be discussed more, please chime in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-23 1:03 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/7] net/ark: HW API part 1 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 11:38 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 20:33 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 1:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules mpu, rqp, and pktdir Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/7] net/ark: provide API for hardware modules mpu rqp " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/7] net/ark: HW API part 2 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 1:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules udm and ddm Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/7] net/ark: provide " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] net/ark: HW API part 3 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules pktchkr and pktgen Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/7] net/ark: provide " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/7] net/ark: Packet TX support initial version Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 21:44 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 5/7] net/ark: packet Tx " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/7] net/ark: Packet RX " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 21:51 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 1:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/7] net/ark: packet Rx " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/7] net/ark: Arkville PMD component integration Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 22:19 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 12:34 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2017-03-29 1:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 9:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-29 21:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 7/7] net/ark: arkville " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 11:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 13:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 19:46 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 12:58 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 21:11 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 9:42 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 22:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/7] net/ark: provide api to hardware module mpu, rqp, and pktdir Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:35 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 20:14 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/7] net/ark: provide API hardware module udm and ddm Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/7] net/ark: prrovide api for hardware module pktchkr and pktgen Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/7] net/ark: Packet TX support initial version Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/7] net/ark: Packet RX " Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:36 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 21:59 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:01 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 7/7] net/ark: Arkville PMD component integration Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:38 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 15:00 ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-03-28 22:42 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 22:38 ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:41 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-29 1:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/7] net/ark: stub PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville Ed Czeck
2017-03-31 14:51 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-31 15:09 ` Shepard Siegel
2017-04-04 20:58 ` Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-04-07 10:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
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