[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] drivers/net/mlx5: fix representor interrupts handler

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sun Nov 22 18:05:34 CET 2020


17/11/2020 19:49, Gregory Etelson:
> Representor is a port in DPDK that is connected to a VF in such a way
> that assuming there are no offload flows, each packet that is sent
> from the VF will be received by the corresponding representor. While
> each packet that is sent to a representor will be received by the VF.
> This is very useful in case of SRIOV mode, where the first packet that
> is sent by the VF will be received by the DPDK application which will
> decide if this flow should be offloaded to the E-Switch.
> 
> Representor shares interrupts handler with host PF over the PCI
> address. Therefore, after PF completes its interrupts handler
> initialization, no additional actions required for representor.
> 
> Fixes: 26c08b979d26 ("net/mlx5: add port representor awareness")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getelson at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxq.c | 6 ++++++

I don't understand why this patch was in the same series as
the l3fwd-power fix.
So the whole series is delegated to me and I merge both.

Applied




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