[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] drivers: introduce vDPA class

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Thu Jan 9 09:00:10 CET 2020



On 1/8/20 10:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 07/01/2020 18:32, Maxime Coquelin:
>> Hi Matan,
>>
>> On 12/25/19 4:19 PM, Matan Azrad wrote:
>>> The vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) drivers provide support for
>>> the vDPA operations introduced by the rte_vhost library.
>>>
>>> Any driver which provides the vDPA operations should be moved\added to
>>> the vdpa class under drivers/vdpa/.
>>>
>>> Create the general files for vDPA class in drivers and in documentation.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
>>> ---
>>>  doc/guides/index.rst          |  1 +
>>>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/index.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/Makefile              |  2 ++
>>>  drivers/meson.build           |  1 +
>>>  drivers/vdpa/Makefile         |  8 ++++++++
>>>  drivers/vdpa/meson.build      |  8 ++++++++
>>>  6 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/vdpadevs/index.rst
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/Makefile
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/meson.build
>>>
>>
>> Looks good to me. Just wondering if we need a dedicated maintainer for
>> this new class of devices?
> 
> We must create a new section in MAINTAINERS file for vDPA drivers.
> Maxime, are you OK to merge those drivers in dpdk-next-virtio tree?

Sure, I can do that.

Maxime



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