[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/6] net/iavf: add IAVF request queues function

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/22/2020 7:48 AM, Ting Xu wrote:
> Add a new virtchnl function to request additional queues from PF. Current
> default queue pairs number when creating a VF is 16. In order to support
> up to 256 queue pairs per VF, enable this request queues function.
> 

If there is a "256" queue pair limit, should it be added into the function, 
right now it gets "uint16_t num" parameter?

> When requesting queues succeeds, PF will return an event message. If it
> is handled by interrupt first, the request queues command cannot receive
> the correct PF response and will wait until timeout. Therefore, disable
> interrupt before requesting queues in order to handle the event message
> asynchronously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ting Xu <ting.xu at intel.com>

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