[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/25/2017 9:59 PM, Shrikrishna Khare wrote:
> vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes
> support for new commands the driver can issue to emulation, change in
> descriptor fields etc. This patch series extends the vmxnet3 driver to
> leverage these new features.
> 
> Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as
> follows:
>  - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3
>    version viz. vmxnet3 version 3.
>  - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver.
>  - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number
>  supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation
>  to run at that version.
> 
> In particular, following changes are introduced:
> 
> Patch 1:
>   Trivial cleanup in preparation of version 3 changes.
> 
> Patch 2:
>   This patch introduces generalized command interface which allows
>   for easily adding new commands that vmxnet3 driver can issue to the
>   emulation. Further patches in this series make use of this facility.
> 
> Patch 3:
>   Transmit data ring buffer is used to copy packet headers or small
>   packets. It is a fixed size buffer. This patch extends the driver to
>   allow variable sized transmit data ring buffer.
> 
> Patch 4:
>   This patch introduces receive data ring buffer - a set of small sized
>   buffers that are always mapped by the emulation. This avoids memory
>   mapping/unmapping overhead for small packets.
> 
> Patch 5:
>   This patch adds reserved commands.
> 
> Patch 6:
>   In vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation added support for the vmxnet3 driver
>   to communicate information about the memory regions the driver will use
>   for rx/tx buffers. This patch exposes related commands to the driver. The
>   driver is also extended to make use of this feaeture.
> 
> Patch 7:
>   With all vmxnet3 version 3 changes incorporated in the vmxnet3 driver,
>   with this patch, the driver can configure emulation to run at vmxnet3
>   version 3.
> 
> Shrikrishna Khare (7):
>   vmxnet3: prepare for version 3 changes
>   vmxnet3: introduce generalized command interface to configure the
>     device
>   vmxnet3: allow variable length transmit data ring buffer
>   vmxnet3: add receive data ring support
>   vmxnet3: add reserved version 3 command
>   vmxnet3: introduce command to register memory region
>   vmxnet3: update to version 3

Hi Shrikrishna,

Can you please update release notes with this change with one or two
sentences in next version of the patchset?

Also there are helper scripts in dpdk:
- dpdk/devtools/check-git-log.sh to check patch titles
- dpdk/devtools/checkpatches.sh (a wrapper to Linux checkpatch.pl)

Both are generating some warnings, can you please check them?

For checkpatches script, it is free to ignore CAMELCASE &
LONG_LINE_STRING warnings.

Thanks,
ferruh




> 
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/base/vmxnet3_defs.h |  85 ++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c    | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.h    |  14 +++
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ring.h      |  21 +++++
>  drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_rxtx.c      |  45 ++++++++--
>  5 files changed, 304 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>