From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>
Cc: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>,
Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>,
Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: deprecate representor matching devarg
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15520741.JCcGWNJJiE@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250716093846.1117794-1-dsosnowski@nvidia.com>
16/07/2025 11:38, Dariusz Sosnowski:
> Mark repr_matching_en device argument exposed by mlx5 PMD
> as deprecated and schedule its removal in 25.11 release.
>
> Functionality exposed by this device argument does not fit
> current E-Switch representor model exposed by DPDK.
> A new unified representor model, described in
> https://fast.dpdk.org/events/slides/DPDK-2024-07-unified_representor.pdf
> should be developed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>
The impact is very limited.
There is no API/ABI breakage.
The devarg is probably not used a lot.
To be on a completely safe side, the devarg could continue to be accepted
if a user set it at its default value.
Still, announcing this is a good idea in case someone uses this.
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-21 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-16 9:38 [PATCH] net/mlx5: deprecate representor matching devarg Dariusz Sosnowski
2025-07-21 19:56 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2025-07-23 9:07 ` Adrian Schollmeyer
2025-07-23 9:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2025-08-14 13:31 ` Dariusz Sosnowski
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