[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] net/bonding: support bifurcated driver in eal cli using --vdev

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/2/2017 12:06 PM, Doherty, Declan wrote:
> On 20/09/2017 7:04 PM, Gowrishankar wrote:
>> From: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> At present, creating bonding devices using --vdev is broken for PMD like
>> mlx5 as it is neither UIO nor VFIO based and hence PMD driver is unknown
>> to find_port_id_by_pci_addr(), as below.
>>
>> testpmd <EAL args> --vdev 'net_bonding0,mode=1,slave=<PCI>,socket_id=0'
>>
>> PMD: bond_ethdev_parse_slave_port_kvarg(150) - Invalid slave port value
>>   (<PCI ID>) specified
>> EAL: Failed to parse slave ports for bonded device net_bonding0
>>
>> This patch fixes parsing PCI ID from bonding device params by verifying
>> it in RTE PCI bus, rather than checking dev->kdrv.
>>
>> Fixes: eac901ce ("ethdev: decouple from PCI device")
>> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
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> Acked-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

(Gaetan, we may ask your help during merge on this.)