From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/27] Add i40e PMD support Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:27:43 +0200 Message-ID: <3908766.ykkJEPOGFU@xps13> References: <1401944951-23783-1-git-send-email-helin.zhang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Helin Zhang , Jing Chen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1401944951-23783-1-git-send-email-helin.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" > The 2nd version of series of patches are to add i40e PMD support. > It contains the updated basic shared code, and some other enhancements. > It adds the support of the latest version of firmware. > * Add new PMD driver of i40e in the folder of librte_pmd_i40e > * Add some neccessary definitions, changes in rte_mbuf.h and eth_dev > * Add new configurations for i40e > * Add or modifiy makefiles to support i40e compilation > * Add neccessary changes in ixgbe, e1000 and vmxnet3 PMD, as hash flags > has been enlarged from 16 bits to 64 bits to support i40e > * Add neccessary changes in example applications and testpmd to use > ETH_RSS_IP to replace all IP hash flags, as i40e introduced more > hash flags. > * Add command in testpmd for port based vlan insertion offload testing > * Add neccessary changes in eth_dev to support configuring maximum > packet length of less than 1518 > * Add two sys files in igb_uio to support enabling/disabling > 'Extended Tag' and resetting 'Max Read Request Size', as it has > big impacts on i40e performance > * Add neccessary changes in pci to read/write the above two sys files > during probing PCI > > Features/enhancements to be implemented later: > * Set link speed, and physically up/down > * Double VLAN support, flow director, VMDq and DCB > * VLAN insertion/stripping, RSS in VF > > Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang > Signed-off-by: Jing Chen > Acked-by: Cunming Liang > Acked-by: Jijiang Liu > Acked-by: Jingjing Wu > Acked-by: Heqing Zhu > Tested-by: Waterman Cao Applied for version 1.7.0. Some things could be cleaned up later, especially i40e specific flags in generic API must be removed. Please work on a patch for next release. Thanks for the hard work -- Thomas