Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: add field for device data per process

2018-10-15 Thread Alejandro Lucero
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 1:12 PM Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > On 10/15/18 12:00 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > > Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With > > current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process. > > This is required for handling properly t

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: add field for device data per process

2018-10-15 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 10/15/18 12:00 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process. This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP PMD with multiprocess support. There

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ethdev: add field for device data per process

2018-10-15 Thread Alejandro Lucero
Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process. This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP PMD with multiprocess support. There is also at least another PMD driver, tap, with s