[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/3] net/ring: create vdev from PMD specific API

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Jun 12 16:19:37 CEST 2017


On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 03:08:31PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 6/12/2017 2:25 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 06:51:19PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> >> When ring PMD created via PMD specific API instead of EAL abstraction
> >> it is missing the virtual device creation done by EAL vdev.
> >>
> >> And this makes eth_dev unusable exact same as other PMDs used, because
> >> of some missing fields, like rte_device->name.
> >>
> >> Now API creates a virtual device and sets proper fields, not all, and it
> >> still won't be linked in the virtual device list eal keeps track. But
> >> makes PMD usable in usual manner.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Is a better fix not to have this API call into the EAL to create the
> > vdev and add it to the lists as with other vdevs? [If it makes it easier,
> > the extra parameters passed in to the library-local function can be
> > saved in a context that can be accessed when the EAL calls back into the
> > driver, rather than having to flatten them out into devargs and re-parsed
> > again.]
> 
> Let me send the patch as suggested.
> 
> Using EAL API is better idea I think, but overall this ring PMD looked
> like hack after changes.
> 
> Please check the latest patch, if we want to keep ring PMD API, perhaps
> we should postpone removing drv_name patch.
> 
The new patch looks ok to me. I actually don't think it looks that
hacked together. :-)

/Bruce


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