On 10/20/2017 1:26 AM, Jingjing Wu wrote: > Adaptive Virtual Function (AVF) Driver is VF driver which supports > for all future Intel devices without requiring a VM update. > It promises the basic high speed connectivity. And since this happens > to be an adaptive VF driver, every new drop of the VF driver would > add more and more advanced features that can be turned on in the VM > if the underlying HW device supports those advanced features. Most > importantly in a device agnostic way without ever compromising on the > base functionality. All the AVF's interface need to follow AVF spec, > and AVF compliant interface is supported start from the > IntelĀ® Ethernet Controller 710 Series.
This looks like a good idea. Still there will be device specific drivers, right? AVF will cover only basic features of all future Intel NICs. > > This patch set adds AVF PMD supporting. > - Device initialization > - Queue setup and Device start > - Basic Rx and Tx. > - MAC address offload feature > - Vlan offload feature > - RSS offload feature > > Which need to be done in later version > - Vectored Rx and Tx func > - Rx interrupt support > - Statistics query > - performance tuning > > Jingjing Wu (9): > net/avf/base: add base code for avf PMD > net/avf: initilization of avf PMD > net/avf: enable queue and device > net/avf: enable basic Rx Tx func > net/avf: enable link status update > net/avf: enable ops for MAC VLAN offload > net/avf: enable ops for rss setting > net/avf: enable ops to check queue info and status > net/i40e: support AVF basic interface Overall comment to whole patchset: - Missing some documentation: Driver documentation, with describing config options as well .ini file, please update it per patch that add feature release notes update to announce new PMD - There are some checkpatch warnings even except base files - Commit logs and patch titles missing details and doesn't cover all modifications in the patch. <...>