[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/6] net/iavf: add IAVF request queues function

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/23/2020 11:11 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 10/22/2020 7:48 AM, Ting Xu wrote:
>> Add a new virtchnl function to request additional queues from PF. Current
>> default queue pairs number when creating a VF is 16. In order to support
>> up to 256 queue pairs per VF, enable this request queues function.
>>
> 
> If there is a "256" queue pair limit, should it be added into the function, 
> right now it gets "uint16_t num" parameter?
> 

Ahh, I can see it is enforced by caller in next patch, that is OK.

>> When requesting queues succeeds, PF will return an event message. If it
>> is handled by interrupt first, the request queues command cannot receive
>> the correct PF response and will wait until timeout. Therefore, disable
>> interrupt before requesting queues in order to handle the event message
>> asynchronously.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ting Xu <ting.xu at intel.com>
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