I'm confused. Shouldn't the DCF be a separate driver since it is a VF, not part of a PF? You are starting to combine PF/VF code and I'm not sure if that is the correct way to go.
Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: dev <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Haiyue Wang > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 11:50 PM > To: [email protected]; Ye, Xiaolong <[email protected]>; Zhang, Qi Z > <[email protected]>; Yang, Qiming <[email protected]>; Xing, Beilei > <[email protected]> > Cc: Zhao1, Wei <[email protected]>; Wang, Haiyue > <[email protected]> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support > > A DCF (Device Config Function) based approach is proposed where a device > bound to the device's VF0 can act as a sole controlling entity to exercise > advance functionality (such as switch, ACL) for rest of the VFs. > > The DCF works as a standalone PMD to support this function, which shares > the ice PMD flow control core function and the iavf virtchnl mailbox core > module. > > This patchset is based on: > [1] https://patchwork.dpdk.org/cover/66417/ : update ice base code [2] > https://patchwork.dpdk.org/cover/66472/ : iavf share code update > > Depends-on: series-8843 > Depends-on: series-8855 > > v2: > 1. update the iavf patchset link. > 2. split more patches for making this work be more understandable > 3. fix the log function usage, devargs checking from v1. > > Haiyue Wang (7): > net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode > net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization > net/ice: initiate to acquire the DCF capability > net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF > net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols > net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF > net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF > > doc/guides/nics/ice.rst | 47 ++ > doc/guides/nics/img/ice_dcf.png | Bin 0 -> 39168 bytes > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_05.rst | 5 + > drivers/common/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 43 ++ > drivers/net/ice/Makefile | 6 + > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.c | 651 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.h | 61 +++ > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c | 321 ++++++++++++ > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.h | 33 ++ > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c | 344 +++++++++++++ > drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 9 +- > drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h | 8 + > drivers/net/ice/meson.build | 8 +- > mk/rte.app.mk | 1 + > 15 files changed, 1528 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 > doc/guides/nics/img/ice_dcf.png create mode 100644 > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.h > create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c create mode 100644 > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.h create mode 100644 > drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c > > -- > 2.25.1
