[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

Xing, Beilei beilei.xing at intel.com
Mon Apr 19 10:31:39 CEST 2021



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, RobinX <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:06 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
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> Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>; mdr at ashroe.eu; nhorman at tuxdriver.com;
> Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Yang, Qiming
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> RobinX <robinx.zhang at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Yigit,
> Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd
> 
> The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for Intel 700
> serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps:
> 
> Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be selected by
> devarg: "driver=i40evf".
> This is covered by this patch, which include:
> 1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD
> 2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf
> 3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf
> 
> Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at DPDK
> 21.11
> 
> Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf except
> bug fix.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>


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