[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] librte_ether: add API for VF management
Thomas Monjalon
thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Sep 29 16:30:05 CEST 2016
2016-09-29 15:16, Bernard Iremonger:
> Add new API function to configure and manage VF's on a NIC.
>
> add rte_eth_dev_set_vf_vlan_stripq function.
>
> Signed-off-by: azelezniak <alexz at att.com>
We need the full name of azelezniak.
> Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger at intel.com>
[...]
> +int
> +rte_eth_dev_set_vf_vlan_stripq(uint8_t port, uint16_t vf, int on);
Why keeping this function in ethdev?
I think it would be more consistent to have also existing VF functions
moving from ethdev to rte_pmd_ixgbe.h.
You cannot remove them, but you can create their ixgbe-specific version
and announce that the ethdev ones are deprecated.
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