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{ "id": 91154, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/91154/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/1618283653-16510-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/projects/1/?format=api", "name": "DPDK", "link_name": "dpdk", "list_id": "dev.dpdk.org", "list_email": "dev@dpdk.org", "web_url": "http://core.dpdk.org", "scm_url": "git://dpdk.org/dpdk", "webscm_url": "http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev", "list_archive_url_format": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/{}", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<1618283653-16510-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1618283653-16510-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com", "date": "2021-04-13T03:14:07", "name": "[v5,0/5] eal: enable global device syntax by default", "submitter": { "id": 1904, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/1904/?format=api", "name": "Xueming Li", "email": "xuemingl@nvidia.com" }, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/1618283653-16510-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 16307, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/series/16307/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16307", "date": "2021-04-13T03:14:07", "name": "eal: enable global device syntax by default", "version": 5, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/series/16307/mbox/" } ], "comments": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/91154/comments/", "headers": { "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>", "X-Original-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Delivered-To": "patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org", "Received": [ "from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124])\n\tby inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A34A0524;\n\tTue, 13 Apr 2021 05:14:32 +0200 (CEST)", "from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBA61609B0;\n\tTue, 13 Apr 2021 05:14:32 +0200 (CEST)", "from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129])\n by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FFE1609AF\n for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:14:30 +0200 (CEST)", "from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from\n xuemingl@nvidia.com) with SMTP; 13 Apr 2021 06:14:26 +0300", "from nvidia.com (pegasus05.mtr.labs.mlnx [10.210.16.100])\n by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id 13D3EQxo015492;\n Tue, 13 Apr 2021 06:14:26 +0300" ], "From": "Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "To": "Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, Gaetan Rivet <gaetanr@nvidia.com>", "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org, xuemingl@nvidia.com, Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>", "Date": "Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:14:07 +0000", "Message-Id": "<1618283653-16510-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "X-Mailer": "git-send-email 1.8.3.1", "In-Reply-To": "<1608304614-13908-2-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "References": "<1608304614-13908-2-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/5] eal: enable global device syntax by\n default", "X-BeenThere": "dev@dpdk.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.29", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>", "List-Post": "<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>,\n <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "dev-bounces@dpdk.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>" }, "content": "The new Global Device Syntax [1] is used to identify a device with full\nbus, class and driver description, example:\n -a bus=pci,addr=82:00.0/class=eth/driver=mlx5,...\n\nThis patchset fixes bugs and enable global device syntax with\nbackward compatibility by:\n- unify devargs memory buffer cleanup\n- parse name from bus driver callback api \n- try new global syntax parsing firstly and fallback to legacy parsing.\n\n\nHistory:\n\nV1:\n - Initial version\n\nV2:\n - add devargs.src as complete source dev string\n - change devargs.data to scratch buffer\n - add rte_devargs_free() to release scratch memory\n - change name policy to align with rte_eth_iterator_init()\n - remove PCI bus fix as name already resolved in rte_devargs_parse().\nV3:\n - remove devargs.src\n - rename rte_devargs_free() to rte_devargs_reset()\n - add bus callback api to resolve devargs.\nV4:\n - add RTE_DEVARGS_KEY_BUS/CLASS/DIRVER macro\n - parsing \"name\" by default if no bus devargs parsing callback\n - Minor fixes suggested by Ray and Thomas\nv5:\n - Update relrease notes\n - Remove NULL support of kvargs_get function\n - Rebased on latest code\n - Small updates according to review comments\n\n\n[1] Global Device Syntax:\nhttps://www.dpdk.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/am-07-DPDK-hotplug-20180905.pdf\n\n[2] RFC:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14378\n\n[3] V1:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14610\n\n[4] V2:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14816\n\n[5] V3:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=15979\n\n[6] v4:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=16267\n\n\nXueming Li (5):\n devargs: unify scratch buffer storage\n devargs: fix memory leak on parsing error\n kvargs: add get by key function\n bus: add device arguments name parsing API\n devargs: parse global device syntax\n\n app/test-pmd/config.c | 3 +-\n app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 5 +-\n doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 7 ++\n drivers/bus/pci/pci_common.c | 1 +\n drivers/bus/pci/pci_params.c | 47 ++++++++++\n drivers/bus/pci/private.h | 14 +++\n drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c | 9 +-\n drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_args.c | 3 +-\n drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_eal.c | 2 +-\n examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/commands.c | 6 +-\n lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c | 9 +-\n lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 91 +++++++++++++++-----\n lib/librte_eal/common/hotplug_mp.c | 6 +-\n lib/librte_eal/include/rte_bus.h | 17 ++++\n lib/librte_eal/include/rte_devargs.h | 22 ++++-\n lib/librte_eal/version.map | 1 +\n lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 9 +-\n lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c | 15 ++++\n lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h | 20 +++++\n lib/librte_kvargs/version.map | 3 +\n 20 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)" }