[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] ethdev: add field for device data per process

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Mon Oct 15 16:47:26 CEST 2018


On 10/15/18 5:11 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With
> current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process.
> This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP
> PMD with multiprocess support.
>
> There is also at least another PMD driver, tap, with similar
> requirements for per-process device data.
>
> v2:
>   - changing library version
>   - report shared library change in release notes
>
> v3:
>   - fix shared library version
>
> v4:
>   - fix release notes
>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero at netronome.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>



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