Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/2] support for VFIO-PCI VF token interface

["Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@intel.com>]

Hi David,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2020 17:22
> To: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang@intel.com>; Vamsi Attunuru <vattunuru@marvell.com>;
> alex.williamson@redhat.com
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <jerinj@marvell.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] support for VFIO-PCI VF token interface
> 
> Thanks a lot for working on this.
> 
> I can see the support on the kernel side has been pulled in what will be 5.7.
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fb732b33b0f4d73f391066c
> 0a970b942c600dab
> 
> I'd like to get the dpdk support in 20.05, but for this, can I have a
> summary of the kernel discussions?
> Is there anything missing/still wip in the kernel?
> 
> 
> On the series itself, I did not look in detail, but there is no
> documentation on how to use the feature.
> We are missing a release note update.

If needed in 20.05, I can add it in release note. And about how to,
I just added it in commit message, and some comments in the API
' rte_vfio_setup_device '.

Not sure which document part is reasonable for adding this, any good
suggestion ?


> And a small comment on the last changes:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26 AM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > v6: Drop the Fixes tag in uuid, since the file has been
> >     moved to another place, not suitable to apply on stable.
> 
> This is *not* a reason to drop the Fixes: tag.
> Hopefully, we still fix bugs once files have been moved.
> 

OK, will add the tag later.

> >     And this is not a bug, just some kind of enhancement.
> 
> But on this point, I suppose this is ok not to backport.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand