[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: add field for device data per process

[Alejandro Lucero]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:12 PM Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
wrote:

> On 10/15/18 12:00 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> > Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With
> > current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process.
> > This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP
> > PMD with multiprocess support.
> >
> > There is also at least another PMD driver, tap, with similar
> > requirements for per-process device data.
> >
> > v2:
> >   - changing library version
> >   - report shared library change in release notes
> >
> > v3:
> >   - fix shared library version
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero at netronome.com>
> > ---
> >   doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 1 +
> >   lib/librte_ethdev/Makefile             | 2 +-
> >   lib/librte_ethdev/meson.build          | 2 +-
> >   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_core.h    | 8 +++++++-
> >   4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> > index c806dc6..8b2ccad 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> > @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ Shared Library Versions
> >        librte_acl.so.2
> >      + librte_cfgfile.so.2
> >        librte_cmdline.so.2
> > +   + librte_ethdev.so.11
> >
> >      This section is a comment. Do not overwrite or remove it.
> >      =========================================================
>
> It is still wrong place. There is librte_ethdev.so.10 few lines below.
> It should be updated to add + sign and change version to 11.
>
>
Apologies for my clumsiness. It seems I was modifying the example!

I'll fix this asap.

Thanks



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