[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support

[Ye Xiaolong]

On 03/27, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>A DCF (Device Config Function) based approach is proposed where a device
>bound to the device's VF0 can act as a sole controlling entity to exercise
>advance functionality (such as switch, ACL) for rest of the VFs.
>
>The DCF works as a standalone PMD to support this function, which shares the
>ice PMD flow control core function and the iavf virtchnl mailbox core module.
>
>v6:
>   No change, but to resend the same patchset again to trigger ci/Performance-Testing
>   by using the new code base:
>	https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/10120/
>
>v5:
>   Fixed the shared module compile errror.
>
>v4:
>   Change the alarm handler to thread service, since it will need to do more
>   work.
>
>v3:
>   1. Fixed the error log message format.
>   2. Fixed some memory allocation check.
>   3. Fixed some code style issue and commmit message description.
>
>v2: 
>   1. update the iavf patchset link.
>   2. split more patches for making this work be more understandable
>   3. fix the log function usage, devargs checking from v1.
>
>Haiyue Wang (7):
>  net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode
>  net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization
>  net/ice: acquire and disable the DCF capability
>  net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF
>  net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols
>  net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF
>  net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF
>
> doc/guides/nics/ice.rst                |  47 ++
> doc/guides/nics/img/ice_dcf.png        | Bin 0 -> 39168 bytes
> doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst |   5 +
> drivers/common/Makefile                |   1 +
> drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c         |  43 ++
> drivers/net/ice/Makefile               |   7 +
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.c              | 658 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.h              |  63 +++
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c       | 321 ++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.h       |  33 ++
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c       | 351 +++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c           |   9 +-
> drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h           |   8 +
> drivers/net/ice/meson.build            |   8 +-
> mk/rte.app.mk                          |   1 +
> 15 files changed, 1545 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/img/ice_dcf.png
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c
>
>-- 
>2.26.0
>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel, Thanks.