[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/26] DPDK PMD for OCTEONTX NW device

santosh santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com
Mon Oct 9 07:12:11 CEST 2017


On Monday 09 October 2017 07:37 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 10/8/2017 1:44 PM, Santosh Shukla wrote:
>> v2:
>> Includes Minor changes like:
>> - Incorporated minor review comment (Suggested y John)
>> - Added correct pool handle ops name i.e. from mbuf-pool-ops to
>>   mbuf-pool-ops-name in the doc.
>> - Rebased on Octeontx-fpavf v3 series and tested for same.
>> - Refer[7]: rebased (octeontx PMD + octeontx_fpavf mempool pmd) on upstream
>>   tip commit : 3fb1ea032bd6ff8317af5dac9af901f1f324cab4.
>>
>> v1:
>> This patch set provides the initial version of DPDK PMD for the
>> integrated NIC device found in Cavium OCTEONTX SoC(CN83xx) family.
>>
>> Introduction to OCTEONTX ARM processors can be found
>> here: http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html
>>
>> OCTEONTX SoC family has two types of NIC controllers,
>> 1) nicvf HW, Which is more like traditional NIC(no NPU HW accelerators)
>> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/thunderx.html
>>
>> 2) NIC controller, based on NPU like HW accelerated coprocessors, like
>> HW assisted mempool manager, HW assisted packet scheduler, etc
>>
>> This driver adds support for the second type device and which will be
>> used as HW implementation driver ethdev-eventdev Rx adapter [1]
>>
>> Implemented features and PMD documentation added
>> in doc/guides/nics/features/octeontx.ini and doc/guides/nics/octeontx.rst
>> respectively in this patch set.
>>
>> This driver has the dependency on:
>> - IOVA infrastructure [2].
>> - Dynamically configure mempool handle (ie.. --mbuf-pool-ops eal arg) [3].
>> - Infrastructure to support octeontx HW mempool manager [4].
>> - Cavium Octeontx external mempool driver [5]
>> Git source repo for all above dependency patches located at [6].
>>
>> The series has three check patch issues:
>> 1) 1 Error on Complex Macro (which I believe it cannot be fixed) # Patch 2
>> 2) 1 Error on spacing while using gcc inline assembly(it is false positive) # patch 2
>> 3) Added Co-authored-by: signature to reflect the patch authorship status instead
>> of "Signed-off-by". It can be changed or the contributing guide can be
>> updated based on the community feedback in v2.
>>
>> [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24176/
>> [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/072871.html
>> [3] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/072910.html
>> [4] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/072892.html
>> [5] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-August/073898.html
>> [6] https://github.com/sshukla82/dpdk branch: mempool-v2
>> [7] https://github.com/sshukla82/dpdk branch: octeontx-ona-pmd-v2
>>
>>
>> Jerin Jacob (26):
>>   net/octeontx: add build infrastructure
>>   net/octeontx/base: add octeontx io operations
>>   event/octeontx: introduce specialized mbox message copy
>>   net/octeontx/base: add base BGX operations
>>   net/octeontx/base: add remaining BGX operations
>>   net/octeontx/base: probe PKI and PKO PCIe VF devices
>>   net/octeontx/base: add base PKI operations
>>   net/octeontx/base: add remaining PKI operations
>>   net/octeontx/base: add base PKO operations
>>   net/octeontx/base: add remaining PKO operations
>>   net/octeontx: add eth device probe and remove
>>   net/octeontx: create ethdev ports
>>   net/octeontx: add device configure
>>   net/octeontx: add device info
>>   net/octeontx: add link update
>>   net/octeontx: add promiscuous mode ops
>>   net/octeontx: add basic stats support
>>   net/octeontx: add MAC addr set op
>>   net/octeontx: add Rx queue setup and release ops
>>   net/octeontx: add Tx queue start and stop
>>   net/octeontx: add Tx queue setup and release ops
>>   net/octeontx: add packet transmit burst function
>>   net/octeontx: add packet receive burst function
>>   net/octeontx: add packet type parsing support
>>   net/octeontx: add start and stop support
>>   doc: add octeontx ethdev driver documentation
> Series applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.

Thanks Ferruh.



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