[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce new class for vDPA device drivers

Matan Azrad matan at mellanox.com
Tue Jan 7 08:57:04 CET 2020


Hi all

Any comments?

From: Matan Azrad
> As discussed and as described in RFC "[RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox
> devices", new vDPA driver is going to be added for Mellanox devices - vDPA
> mlx5 and more.
> 
> The only vDPA driver now is the IFC driver that is located in net directory.
> 
> The IFC driver and the new vDPA mlx5 driver provide the vDPA ops
> introduced in librte_vhost and not the eth-dev ops.
> All the others drivers in net class provide the eth-dev ops.
> The set of features is also different.
> 
> Create a new class for vDPA drivers and move IFC to this class.
> Later, all the new drivers that implement the vDPA ops will be added to the
> vDPA class.
> 
> Also, a vDPA device driver features list was added to vDPA documentation.
> 
> Please review the features list and the series.
> 
> Later on, I'm going to send the vDPA mlx5 driver.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Matan Azrad (3):
>   drivers: introduce vDPA class
>   doc: add vDPA feature table
>   drivers: move ifc driver to the vDPA class
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                               |    6 +-
>  doc/guides/conf.py                        |    5 +
>  doc/guides/index.rst                      |    1 +
>  doc/guides/nics/features/ifcvf.ini        |    8 -
>  doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst                   |  106 ---
>  doc/guides/nics/index.rst                 |    1 -
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/features/default.ini  |   55 ++
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/features/ifcvf.ini    |    8 +
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/features_overview.rst |   65 ++
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/ifc.rst               |  106 +++
>  doc/guides/vdpadevs/index.rst             |   15 +
>  drivers/Makefile                          |    2 +
>  drivers/meson.build                       |    1 +
>  drivers/net/Makefile                      |    3 -
>  drivers/net/ifc/Makefile                  |   34 -
>  drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf.c              |  329 --------
>  drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf.h              |  162 ----
>  drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf_osdep.h        |   52 --
>  drivers/net/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c              | 1280 -----------------------------
>  drivers/net/ifc/meson.build               |    9 -
>  drivers/net/ifc/rte_pmd_ifc_version.map   |    3 -
>  drivers/net/meson.build                   |    1 -
>  drivers/vdpa/Makefile                     |   14 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/Makefile                 |   34 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf.c             |  329 ++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf.h             |  162 ++++
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf_osdep.h       |   52 ++
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c             | 1280
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/meson.build              |    9 +
>  drivers/vdpa/ifc/rte_pmd_ifc_version.map  |    3 +
>  drivers/vdpa/meson.build                  |    8 +
>  31 files changed, 2152 insertions(+), 1991 deletions(-)  delete mode 100644
> doc/guides/nics/features/ifcvf.ini
>  delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst  create mode 100644
> doc/guides/vdpadevs/features/default.ini
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/vdpadevs/features/ifcvf.ini
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/vdpadevs/features_overview.rst
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/vdpadevs/ifc.rst  create mode 100644
> doc/guides/vdpadevs/index.rst  delete mode 100644
> drivers/net/ifc/Makefile  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf.c
> delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf.h  delete mode 100644
> drivers/net/ifc/base/ifcvf_osdep.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c  delete mode 100644
> drivers/net/ifc/meson.build  delete mode 100644
> drivers/net/ifc/rte_pmd_ifc_version.map
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/Makefile  create mode 100644
> drivers/vdpa/ifc/Makefile  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf.h  create mode 100644
> drivers/vdpa/ifc/base/ifcvf_osdep.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/ifc/ifcvf_vdpa.c  create mode 100644
> drivers/vdpa/ifc/meson.build  create mode 100644
> drivers/vdpa/ifc/rte_pmd_ifc_version.map
>  create mode 100644 drivers/vdpa/meson.build
> 
> --
> 1.8.3.1



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