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{ "id": 86869, "url": "https://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/86869/?format=api", "web_url": "https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/1611041295-12797-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "https://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": "<1611041295-12797-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/1611041295-12797-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com", "date": "2021-01-19T07:28:06", "name": "[v4,0/8] net/mlx5: support SubFunction representor", "submitter": { "id": 1904, "url": "https://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/1904/?format=api", "name": "Xueming Li", "email": "xuemingl@nvidia.com" }, "mbox": "https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/1611041295-12797-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 14836, "url": "https://patches.dpdk.org/api/series/14836/?format=api", "web_url": "https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14836", "date": "2021-01-19T07:28:08", "name": "net/mlx5: support SubFunction representor", "version": 4, "mbox": "https://patches.dpdk.org/series/14836/mbox/" } ], "comments": "https://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/86869/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 53A43A0A03;\n\tTue, 19 Jan 2021 08:30:26 +0100 (CET)", "from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77CF140D8E;\n\tTue, 19 Jan 2021 08:30:01 +0100 (CET)", "from mellanox.co.il (mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com [193.47.165.129])\n by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0299A140D06\n for <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:29:53 +0100 (CET)", "from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE1 (envelope-from\n xuemingl@nvidia.com) with SMTP; 19 Jan 2021 09:29:51 +0200", "from nvidia.com (pegasus05.mtr.labs.mlnx [10.210.16.100])\n by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id 10J7Tpqj014531;\n Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:29:51 +0200" ], "From": "Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>", "To": "Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>", "Cc": "dev@dpdk.org, xuemingl@nvidia.com, Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>", "Date": "Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:28:06 +0000", "Message-Id": "<1611041295-12797-1-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 v4 0/8] net/mlx5: support SubFunction representor", "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": "SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own\ndedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch representation\noffload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A SF shares PCI\nlevel resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function.\n\nThis patch set introduces SubFunction representor support for mlx5\nPMD driver.\n\nDepends-on: series-14834 (\"ethdev: support SubFunction representor\")\n\nVersion history:\n RFC:\n \tinitial version [2]\n V2:\n - support bonding representor probe with new pf#vf# devargs\n - adapt EAL api V2 [3] changes\n - update document\n V3:\n - support list of representor PF section for bonding device:\n example: representor=pf[0,1]vf[0-3]\n - add bonding information to shared PMD data\n - fix setting VF MAC through representor\n - fix bonding xstats, sum xstats from PF members.\n v4:\n - combine unexpected patch, thanks Slava\n\n[1] SubFunction in kernel:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201112192424.2742-1-parav@nvidia.com/\n\n[2] RFC:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14376\n\n[3] V2:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14560\n\n[3] V3:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14810\n\n[4] EAL part to support SF representor:\nhttp://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=14834\n\n\nXueming Li (8):\n common/mlx5: update representor name parsing\n net/mlx5: support representor of sub function\n net/mlx5: revert setting bonding representor to first PF\n net/mlx5: refactor bonding representor probe\n net/mlx5: support representor from multiple PFs\n net/mlx5: save bonding member ports information\n net/mlx5: fix setting VF default MAC through representor\n net/mlx5: improve bonding xstats\n\n doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 62 +++-\n drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_common_os.c | 32 +-\n drivers/common/mlx5/linux/mlx5_nl.c | 2 +\n drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.h | 2 +\n drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_ethdev_os.c | 136 +++++--\n drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 399 ++++++++++++++-------\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 25 +-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h | 25 +-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_defs.h | 4 -\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c | 34 +-\n drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mac.c | 26 +-\n 11 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 214 deletions(-)" }