[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] net/netvsc: integrated VF support
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Sep 14 14:57:58 CEST 2018
On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
>
> Integrate accelerated networking support into netvsc PMD.
> This allows netvsc to manage VF without using failsafe or vdev_netvsc.
> For the exception vswitch path some tests like transmit
> get a 22% increase in packets/sec.
> For the VF path, the code is slightly shorter but has no
> real change in performance.
>
> Pro:
> * using netvsc is more like other DPDK NIC's
> * the exception packet uses less CPU
> * much smaller code size
> * no locking required on VF transmit/receive path
> * no legacy Linux network device to get mangled by userspace
> * much simpler (1K vs 9K) LOC
> * unified extended statistics
>
> Con:
> * using netvsc has more complex startup model
> * no bifurcated driver support
> * no flow support (since host does not have flow API).
> * no tunnel offload support
> * no receive interrupt support
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> ---
> devtools/checkpatches.sh | 2 +-
> doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst | 12 +-
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 14 +-
> drivers/net/netvsc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c | 109 +++++-
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_nvs.c | 11 +-
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_nvs.h | 9 +
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rndis.c | 31 ++
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rndis.h | 1 +
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c | 136 ++++---
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h | 43 ++-
> drivers/net/netvsc/hn_vf.c | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/netvsc/meson.build | 2 +-
> 13 files changed, 799 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_vf.c
>
> diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> index ba795ad1dc36..db7afc43d4c0 100755
> --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -#! /bin/sh
> +#! /bin/bash
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> # Copyright 2015 6WIND S.A.
This tool patch shouldn't be part of driver update, would you mind sending a
separate patch for it?
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