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

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Oct 16 10:34:14 CEST 2018


On 10/16/2018 9:27 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 10/15/2018 3:47 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.


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