[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 00/10] ethdev: support SubFunction representor

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 3:19 AM
>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>
>Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/10] ethdev: support SubFunction representor
>
>On 3/11/2021 1:13 PM, Xueming Li wrote:
>> SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its
>> own dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch
>> representation offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A
>> SF shares PCI level resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function.
>>
>>  From SmartNIC perspective, when PCI device is shared for multi-host,
>> representors for host controller and host PF is required.
>>
>> This patch set introduces new representor types in addtion to existing
>> VF representor. Syntax:
>>
>> [[c#]pf#]vf#: VF port representor/s from controller/pf
>> [[c#]pf#]sf#: SF port representor/s from controller/pf
>> #: VF representor - for backwards compatibility
>>
>> "#" is number instance, list or range, valid examples:
>>    1, [1,3,5], [0-3], [0,2-4,6]
>>
>> For backward compatibility, this patch also introduces new netdev
>> capability to indicate the capability of supportting SF representor.
>>
>> Version history:
>>   RFC:
>>   	initial version [2]
>>   V2:
>>      - separate patch for represnetor infrastructure, controller, pf and
>>        sf.
>>      - replace representor ID macro with functions:
>>        rte_eth_representor_id_encode()
>>        rte_eth_representor_id_parse()
>>      - new patch to allow devargs with same PCI BDF but different
>>        representors.
>>      - other minor code updates according to comments, thanks Andrew!
>>      - update document
>>   V3:
>>      - improve probing of allowed devargs with same name.
>>      - parse single word of kvargs as key.
>>      - update kvargs test cases.
>>   V4:
>>      - split first representor refactor patch into
>>        1: add representor type
>>        2: refector representor list parsing
>>      - push the patch supporting multi-devargs for same device.
>>   V5:
>>      - add comments for parsing functions
>>      - update switch_representation.rst - Thanks Ajit
>>   V6:
>>      - split representor types into different patches, move to
>>        rte_ethdev.h
>>      - improvements of rte_eth_devargs_process_list() according to
>>        Andrew's suggestion
>>      - fixed PF probe failure for Intel i40e
>>      - replace ethdev SF capability with rte_eth_representor_info_get()
>>      - add new ethdev ops api to get representor info from PMD
>>      - replace representor ID encode/decode with conversion from
>>        representor info
>>      - change ethdev representor iterator to use new ID encoding
>>   V7:
>>      - error on duplicated representor argument:
>>        DBDF,representor=a,representor=b
>>      - fix pf representor type parsing
>>      - other small fixes suggested by Andrew.
>>   V8:
>>   	- remove the "ignore" hint from pmd representor info
>>   	- changed representor_id type in representor info to u32
>>   	- rename rte_eth_representor_id_convert() to ..._get()
>>   	- other small fixes suggested by Andrew
>>   V9:
>> 	- more document for PMD to implement representor_info_get
>> 	  callback
>> 	- updated ice and txgbe to adapt new representor type
>> 	- updated 21.05 release notes
>> 	- other small fixes suggested by Ferruh and Andrew, thanks.
>>
>>
>> Xueming Li (10):
>>    ethdev: introduce representor type
>>    ethdev: refactor representor port list parsing
>>    ethdev: support new VF representor syntax
>>    ethdev: support sub function representor
>>    kvargs: update parser to support multiple lists
>>    ethdev: support PF index in representor
>>    ethdev: support multi-host in representor
>>    ethdev: new API to get representor info
>>    ethdev: representor iterator compare complete info
>>    doc/release: add representor enhancements
>>
>
>Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

Thanks!