From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
To: Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@linux.dev>, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@linux.dev>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>,
SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>, Bin Chen <bin.chen@corigine.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: hinic: Add control command support for VF PMD driver in DPDK
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:46:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iljz7y0n.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221101060358.7837-2-cai.huoqing@linux.dev>
On Tue, 01 Nov 2022, Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@linux.dev> wrote:
> HINIC has a mailbox for PF-VF communication and the VF driver
> could send port control command to PF driver via mailbox.
>
> The control command only can be set to register in PF,
> so add support in PF driver for VF PMD driver control
> command when VF PMD driver work with linux PF driver.
>
> Then there is no need to add handlers to nic_vf_cmd_msg_handler[],
> because the host driver just forwards it to the firmware.
> Actually the firmware works on a coprocessor MGMT_CPU(inside the NIC)
> which will recv and deal with these commands.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@linux.dev>
Out of curiosity, what exactly compelled you to Cc me on this particular
patch? I mean there aren't a whole lot of places in the kernel that
would be more off-topic for me. :)
BR,
Jani.
--
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-01 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-01 6:03 [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: hinic: Convert the cmd code from decimal to hex to be more readable Cai Huoqing
2022-11-01 6:03 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: hinic: Add control command support for VF PMD driver in DPDK Cai Huoqing
2022-11-01 10:46 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2022-11-01 12:17 ` Cai Huoqing
2022-11-01 12:37 ` Jani Nikula
2022-11-01 15:37 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-01 16:06 ` Jani Nikula
2022-11-03 3:36 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: hinic: Convert the cmd code from decimal to hex to be more readable Jakub Kicinski
2022-11-04 3:53 ` Cai Huoqing
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