From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:50:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4986406.oWqD7VKg3u@xps> References: <20180214123244.50967-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> <1518622067.4059.27.camel@intl.att.com> <20180214155442.GA9407@jerin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Jerin Jacob , "Boccassi, Luca" , "nhorman@tuxdriver.com" , "remy.horton@intel.com" , "mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com" , "declan.doherty@intel.com" , "ferruh.yigit@intel.com" To: "shahafs@mellanox.com" Return-path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748F81B29E for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:50:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20180214155442.GA9407@jerin> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" > > > This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05 > > > > > > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html > > > > > > Cc: declan.doherty@intel.com > > > Cc: mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com > > > Cc: ferruh.yigit@intel.com > > > Cc: remy.horton@intel.com > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler > > > --- > > > +* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port > > > representors > > > + as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the > > > different VFs. > > > + As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in > > > order to map > > > + between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new > > > fields > > > + are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct. > > > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi > > Acked-by: Alex Zelezniak > > Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Applied