[dpdk-dev] [RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devices

Matan Azrad matan at mellanox.com
Thu Aug 15 12:47:07 CEST 2019


The last Mellanox adapters\SoCs support virtio operations to accelerate the vhost data path.

A new net PMD will be added to implement the vdpa driver requirements on top of Mellanox
devices support it like ConnectX6 and BlueField.

Points:

  *   The mlx5_vdpa PMD run on top of PCI devices VF and PF.
  *   The Mellanox PCI device can be configured ether to support ethdev device or to support vdpa device.
  *   An one physical device can contain ethdev VFs\PF driven by the mlx5 PMD and vdpa VFs\PF driven by the new mlx5_vdpa PMD parallelly.
  *   The  decision which driver should be selected to probe Mellanox PCI device should be taken by the user using the PCI device devargs.
  *   mlx5 and mlx5_vdpa depend in rdma-core lib so some code may be shared between them,

due that a new mlx5 common directory will be added in drivers/commom for code reusing.

  *   All the guest physical memory of the virtqs will be translated to the host physical memory by the HW.


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