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

Ajit Khaparde ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com
Tue Jun 21 16:25:18 CEST 2016


Bruce,
We have a set of patches which add support to a couple of new Broadcom PCI
devices.
Should I use the dpdk-next-net/rel_16_07 to push them out?
Let me know if there is any other way to do this.

Thanks

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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