[PATCH v8 0/8] introduce GVE PMD

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/25/2022 10:07 AM, Junfeng Guo wrote:
> Introduce a new PMD for Google Virtual Ethernet (GVE).
> 
> gve (or gVNIC) is the standard virtual ethernet interface on Google Cloud
> Platform (GCP), which is one of the multiple virtual interfaces from those
> leading CSP customers in the world.
> 
> Having a well maintained/optimized gve PMD on DPDK community can help those
> cloud instance consumers with better experience of performance, maintenance
> who wants to run their own VNFs on GCP.
> 
> Please refer tohttps://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking/using-gvnic
> for the device description.
> 
> This patch set requires an exception for MIT license for GVE base code.
> And the base code includes the following files:
>   - gve_adminq.c
>   - gve_adminq.h
>   - gve_desc.h
>   - gve_desc_dqo.h
>   - gve_register.h
> 
> It's based on GVE kernel driver v1.3.0 and the original code is in
> https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-virtual-ethernet-linux/tree/v1.3.0
> 
> 
> v2:
> fix some CI check error.
> 
> v3:
> refactor some code and fix some build error.
> 
> v4:
> move the Google base code files into DPDK base folder.
> 
> v5:
> reorder commit sequence and drop the stats feature.
> 
> v6:
> improve the code.
> 
> v7:
> - remove Intel copyright for the google base files.
> 
> v8:
> - replace ETIME with ETIMEDOUT to pass the build check.
> - use RTE_ETHER_ADDR_PRT_FMT/_ADDR_BYTES to get rid of 'mac' variable.
> - add limitations in doc for current limited RSS and MTU.
> 
> 
> Junfeng Guo (8):
>    net/gve/base: introduce base code
>    net/gve/base: add OS specific implementation
>    net/gve: add support for device initialization
>    net/gve: add support for link update
>    net/gve: add support for MTU setting
>    net/gve: add support for dev info get and dev configure
>    net/gve: add support for queue operations
>    net/gve: add support for Rx/Tx

Series applied to dpdk-next-net/main, thanks.

Please send a web page to document the new PMD:
https://core.dpdk.org/supported/#nics