[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/9] ethdev: support representor port list

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

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>From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:38 PM
>To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>; Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
>Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Asaf Penso <asafp at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon
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>Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/9] ethdev: support representor port list
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>On 3/4/2021 2:30 PM, Xueming Li wrote:
>> To support extended representor syntax, this patch extends the
>> representor list parsing to support for representor port range in
>> devargs, examples:
>>     representor=[1,2,3]         - single list
>>     representor=[1,3-5,7,9-11]  - list with singles and ranges
>>
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>Isn't above syntax already supported, can you please document what is added?
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> From documentation, what already supported is:
>-w pci:dbdf,representor=0
>-w pci:dbdf,representor=[0-3]
>-w pci:dbdf,representor=[0,5-11]
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Just a refactor to prepare for the extended representor syntax which need to reuse the value parsing function for controller and pf section.

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>> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
>> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
>> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
>> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
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