[PATCH v6 00/26] Net/SPNIC: support SPNIC into DPDK 22.03

[Yanling Song]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:56:52 +0000
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:

> On 12/30/2021 6:08 AM, Yanling Song wrote:
> > The patchsets introduce SPNIC driver for Ramaxel's SPNxx serial NIC
> > cards into DPDK 22.03. Ramaxel Memory Technology is a company which
> > supply a lot of electric products: storage, communication, PCB...
> > SPNxxx is a serial PCIE interface NIC cards:
> > SPN110: 2 PORTs *25G
> > SPN120: 4 PORTs *25G
> > SPN130: 2 PORTs *100G
> >   
> 
> Hi Yanling,
> 
> As far as I can see hnic (from Huawei) and this spnic drivers are
> alike, what is the relation between these two?
> 
It is hard to create a brand new driver from scratch, so we referenced
to hinic driver when developing spnic.

> > The following is main features of our SPNIC:
> > - TSO
> > - LRO
> > - Flow control
> > - SR-IOV(Partially supported)
> > - VLAN offload
> > - VLAN filter
> > - CRC offload
> > - Promiscuous mode
> > - RSS
> > 
> > v6->v5, No real changes:
> > 1. Move the fix of RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS from patch 26
> > to patch 2; 2. Change the description of patch 26.
> > 
> > v5->v4:
> > 1. Add prefix "spinc_" for external functions;
> > 2. Remove temporary MACRO: RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS
> > 3. Do not use void* for keeping the type information
> > 
> > v3->v4:
> > 1. Fix ABI test failure;
> > 2. Remove some descriptions in spnic.rst.
> > 
> > v2->v3:
> > 1. Fix clang compiling failure.
> > 
> > v1->v2:
> > 1. Fix coding style issues and compiling failures;
> > 2. Only support linux in meson.build;
> > 3. Use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE instead of
> > CLOCK_MONOTONIC/CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW; 4. Fix time_before();
> > 5. Remove redundant checks in spnic_dev_configure();
> > 
> > Yanling Song (26):
> >    drivers/net: introduce a new PMD driver
> >    net/spnic: initialize the HW interface
> >    net/spnic: add mbox message channel
> >    net/spnic: introduce event queue
> >    net/spnic: add mgmt module
> >    net/spnic: add cmdq and work queue
> >    net/spnic: add interface handling cmdq message
> >    net/spnic: add hardware info initialization
> >    net/spnic: support MAC and link event handling
> >    net/spnic: add function info initialization
> >    net/spnic: add queue pairs context initialization
> >    net/spnic: support mbuf handling of Tx/Rx
> >    net/spnic: support Rx congfiguration
> >    net/spnic: add port/vport enable
> >    net/spnic: support IO packets handling
> >    net/spnic: add device configure/version/info
> >    net/spnic: support RSS configuration update and get
> >    net/spnic: support VLAN filtering and offloading
> >    net/spnic: support promiscuous and allmulticast Rx modes
> >    net/spnic: support flow control
> >    net/spnic: support getting Tx/Rx queues info
> >    net/spnic: net/spnic: support xstats statistics
> >    net/spnic: support VFIO interrupt
> >    net/spnic: support Tx/Rx queue start/stop
> >    net/spnic: add doc infrastructure
> >    net/spnic: fixes unsafe C style code  
> 
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