[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/38] new bnxt poll mode driver library

Ajit Khaparde ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com
Thu Jun 16 20:51:00 CEST 2016


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Bruce Richardson <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 02:23:00PM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> > The bnxt poll mode library (librte_pmd_bnxt) implements support for
> > Broadcom NetXtreme C-Series.  These adapters support Standards-
> > compliant 10/25/50Gbps 30MPPS full-duplex throughput.
> >
> > Information about this family of adapters can be found in the
> > NetXtreme Brand section https://goo.gl/4H7q63 of the Broadcom web
> > site http://www.broadcom.com/
> >
> > With the current driver, allocated mbufs must be large enough to hold
> > the entire received frame.  If the mbufs are not large enough, the
> > packets will be dropped.  This is most limiting when jumbo frames are
> > used.
> >
>
> Applied to dpdk-next-net/rel_16_07
>
> On apply I got conflicts with the nic overview document, so please check
> the
> resulting information in that document is correct in the next-net tree.
> I also added a very short entry to the release notes for this new driver as
> part of patch 1, since that was missing. Please also check that for
> correctness
> and send on any additional comments/corrections you want on that.
>
Thanks Bruce. I had a cursory glance ​and it looked good.
We will update the
​m​ further
if necessary.
​


> Thanks for all the work on this driver.
>
> Regards,
> /Bruce
>


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