[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] net/representor: Implement port representor PMD

Mohammad Abdul Awal mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com
Mon Dec 11 16:11:22 CET 2017



On 11/12/2017 10:08, Remy Horton wrote:
>> int
>> rte_representor_port_register(const char *devargs);
>
> Question is where this *devargs comes from - I don't think there is 
> currently any commandline option to specify a parameter string for PFs.
>
Remy, devargs will be passed by the application who uses the 
rte_representor_port_register API. We are not talking about the EAL args 
here.

> Could go down the zero-conf route of always creating representors for 
> all available VFs, but in that case may as well strip out the parsing 
> code.
>
No zero-conf please. Application should have the control, at least for 
generic cases.


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