Monday, March 25, 2019 9:16 PM, Yongseok Koh: > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/mlx5: replace IPC socket with EAL > API > > Socket API is used for IPC in order for secondary process to acquire Verb > command file descriptor. The FD is used to remap UAR address. The new > multi-process APIs (rte_mp) in EAL are newly introduced. mlx5_socket.c is > replaced with mlx5_mp.c, which uses the new APIs. > > As it is PMD global infrastructure, only one IPC channel is established. > All the IPC message types may have port_id in the message if there is need > to reference a specific device. > > Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <ys...@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>