[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: allow virtual devices to be white/black listed

Neil Horman nhorman at tuxdriver.com
Mon Nov 17 17:00:41 CET 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:52:18PM +0000, Nicolas Pernas Maradei wrote:
> 
> On 17/11/14 14:10, Neil Horman wrote:
> >What are the above pci bus/device/function tuples?
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if I understand the question. If you mean what kind of devices
> those are, as in physical or virtual, they are physical.
> rte_eal_devargs_add() would parse the string as a PCI ID. If it succeed it'd
> add them as physical devices having the field is_vdev = 0.
> 
> Please let me know if I answered your question.
> 
I get that, I was more asking, why those values?  They seem a bit magic to me,
and might benefit from some descriptive macros or comments so they make more
sense
Neil

> Thanks,
> Nico.
> 


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