On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:03:52AM +0000, Stokes, Ian wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 3:05 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Stokes, Ian <[email protected]>; Shahaf Shuler
> > <[email protected]>; Yuanhan Liu <[email protected]>; Loftus, Ciara
> > <[email protected]>; Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>; Kevin
> > Traynor <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [PATCH v3] netdev-dpdk: fix port addition for ports sharing same
> > PCI id
> >
> > Some NICs have only one PCI address associated with multiple ports. This
> > patch extends the dpdk-devargs option's format to cater for such devices.
> >
> > To achieve that, this patch uses a new syntax that will be adapted and
> > implemented in future DPDK release (likely, v18.05):
> > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-December/084234.html
> >
> > And since it's the DPDK duty to parse the (complete and full) syntax and
> > this patch is more likely to serve as an intermediate workaround, here I
> > take a simpler and shorter syntax from it (note it's allowed to have only
> > one category being provided):
> > class=eth,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55:66
> >
> > Also, old compatibility is kept. Users can still go on with using the PCI
> > id to add a port (if that's enough for them). Meaning, this patch will not
> > break anything.
> >
> > This patch is basically based on the one from Ciara:
> > https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-
> > October/339496.html
> >
> > Cc: Loftus Ciara <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <[email protected]>
>
> Thanks for the work on this Yuanhan, it's a valuable feature/bug fix.
>
> At this point I think this aligns to the DPDK model?
Yes, I think so.
>
> If so, and if there are no other comments on this patchset then I plan to
> merge this to DPDK merge over the weekend.
>
Thank you for taking care of it.
--yliu
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