[dpdk-dev] discussion: creating a new class for vdpa driversxiao.w.wang at intel.com

[Matan Azrad]

Hi all

As described in RFC "[RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devices", a new vdpa drivers is going to be added for Mellanox devices - mlx5_vdpa

The only vdpa driver now is the IFC driver that is located in net directory.

The IFC driver and the new mlx5_vdpa driver provide the vdpa ops and not the eth_dev ops.
All the others drivers in net provide the eth-dev ops.

I suggest to create a new class for vdpa drivers, to move IFC to this class and to add the mlx5_vdpa to this class too.
Later, all the new drivers that implements the vdpa ops will be added to the vdpa class.

Will be nice to see your comments.



Matan