From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Doherty, Declan" Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:54:27 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20180214123244.50967-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, remy.horton@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, thomas@monjalon.net To: Shahaf Shuler Return-path: Received: from mga18.intel.com (mga18.intel.com [134.134.136.126]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20C61B28F for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:54:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20180214123244.50967-1-shahafs@mellanox.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 14/02/2018 12:32 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote: > 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 > --- >   doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices >     be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the >     structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on >     platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. > + > +* 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: Declan Doherty