> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yuanhan Liu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 2:48 PM
> To: Stokes, Ian <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Shahaf Shuler <[email protected]>; Loftus,
> Ciara <[email protected]>; Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>;
> Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>; Ilya Maximets
> ([email protected]) <[email protected]>; Olga Shern
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] netdev-dpdk: fix port addition for ports sharing
> same PCI id
> 
> 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.

Thanks for all the work on this, I've pushed this to DPDK_MERGE and will also 
push it to DPDK_MERGE_2_9 for it to be part of the 2.9 release.

Ian
> 
>       --yliu

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