[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/bonding: support bifurcated driver in eal cli using --vdev

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Jun 15 15:54:47 CEST 2017


On 6/14/2017 11:49 AM, Gowrishankar wrote:
> From: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> At present, creating bonding devices using --vdev is broken for PMD like
> mlx5 as it is neither UIO nor VFIO based and hence PMD driver is unknown
> to find_port_id_by_pci_addr(), as below.
> 
> testpmd <EAL args> --vdev 'net_bonding0,mode=1,slave=<PCI>,socket_id=0'
> 
> PMD: bond_ethdev_parse_slave_port_kvarg(150) - Invalid slave port value
>  (<PCI ID>) specified
> EAL: Failed to parse slave ports for bonded device net_bonding0
> 
> This patch adds RTE_KDRV_BIFURCATED in rte_kernel_driver for the PMD
> driver like mlx5 to be a known one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Patch is for bonding but changes are in eal and related to mlx support,
so adding more developers may be interested.


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