[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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