Re: [PATCH 5/5] net/netvsc: integrated VF support

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:57:58 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/30/2018 11:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> > 
> > Integrate accelerated networking support into netvsc PMD.
> > This allows netvsc to manage VF without using failsafe or vdev_netvsc.
> > For the exception vswitch path some tests like transmit
> > get a 22% increase in packets/sec.
> > For the VF path, the code is slightly shorter but has no
> > real change in performance.
> > 
> > Pro:
> >    * using netvsc is more like other DPDK NIC's
> >    * the exception packet uses less CPU
> >    * much smaller code size
> >    * no locking required on VF transmit/receive path
> >    * no legacy Linux network device to get mangled by userspace
> >    * much simpler (1K vs 9K) LOC
> >    * unified extended statistics
> > 
> > Con:
> >    * using netvsc has more complex startup model
> >    * no bifurcated driver support
> >    * no flow support (since host does not have flow API).
> >    * no tunnel offload support
> >    * no receive interrupt support
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> >  devtools/checkpatches.sh               |   2 +-
> >  doc/guides/nics/netvsc.rst             |  12 +-
> >  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst |  14 +-
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/Makefile            |   1 +
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c         | 109 +++++-
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_nvs.c            |  11 +-
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_nvs.h            |   9 +
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rndis.c          |  31 ++
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rndis.h          |   1 +
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_rxtx.c           | 136 ++++---
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_var.h            |  43 ++-
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/hn_vf.c             | 512 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/net/netvsc/meson.build         |   2 +-
> >  13 files changed, 799 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_vf.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> > index ba795ad1dc36..db7afc43d4c0 100755
> > --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> > +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> > -#! /bin/sh
> > +#! /bin/bash
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> >  # Copyright 2015 6WIND S.A.  
> 
> This tool patch shouldn't be part of driver update, would you mind sending a
> separate patch for it?


Sorry, that slipped in. Will drop it.