[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/41] Introduce NXP DPAA Bus, Mempool and PMD

[Thomas Monjalon]

09/09/2017 13:20, Shreyansh Jain:
> DPAA, or Datapath Acceleration Architecture [R2], is a set of hardware
> components designed for high-speed network packet processing. This
> architecture provides the infrastructure to support simplified sharing of
> networking interfaces and accelerators by multiple CPU cores, and the
> accelerators themselves.
> 
> This patchset introduces the following:
> 1. DPAA Bus (drivers/bus/dpaa)
>  The core of DPAA bus is implemented using 3 main hardware blocks: QMan,
>  or Queue Manager; BMan, or Buffer Manager and FMan, or Frame Manager.
>  The patches introduce necessary layers to expose the DPAA hardware
>  blocks for interfacing with RTE framework.

I guess these are the same blocks as for DPAA2?
They are in drivers/bus/fslmc/
Why introducing yet another bus driver?
The fslmc one was supposed to cover any Freescale (NXP (Qualcomm)) SoC.

> 2. DPAA Mempool (drivers/mempool/dpaa)
>  BMan, or Buffer Manager, block of DPAA features a hardware offloaded
>  mempool. These patches add support for a driver to manage the BMan
>  block. This driver allows for mempool creation, deletion, buffer
>  acquire and release, as per the RTE APIs.
> 
> 3. DPAA PMD (drivers/net/dpaa)
>  The Poll Mode Driver for DPAA NIC Interfaces.
> 
> Patch Layout
> ============
> 
> 01: Add DPAA SoC build configuration
> 02~16: Add DPAA Bus support and features, incrementally
> 17: Add Documentation
> 18~21: Add DPAA Mempool support
> 22~41: Add PMD and its various features, incrementally

It is a very long series introducing 3 different subsystems.
I think everybody was scared about reviewing it.
Why you did not split it?