Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/9] ethdev: support SubFunction representor

2021-03-08 Thread Xueming(Steven) Li
>-Original Message- >From: Ferruh Yigit >Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:44 AM >To: Xueming(Steven) Li ; Andrew Rybchenko > >Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso > >Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/9] ethdev: support SubFunction representor > &g

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/9] ethdev: support SubFunction representor

2021-03-08 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 3/4/2021 2:30 PM, Xueming Li wrote: SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch representation offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A SF shares PCI level resources with other SFs and/or with it

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 0/9] ethdev: support SubFunction representor

2021-03-04 Thread Xueming Li
SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports E-Switch representation offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A SF shares PCI level resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function. >From SmartNIC pe