[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] increase port_id range

Matej Vido vido at cesnet.cz
Wed Sep 13 10:14:26 CEST 2017


On 11.09.2017 12:23, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 9/9/2017 3:47 PM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
>> port_id is currently defined as uint8_t, which is limited to the range
>> 0 to 255. A larger range is required for vdev scalability.
>>
>> It is necessary for a redefinition of port_id to extend it from
>> 1 bytes to 2 bytes. All ethdev APIs and usages related to port_id will
>> be changed at the same time.
>>
>> Discussion about port_id is the following thread.
>> http://www.dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/23208/
>>
>> Changes in V2:
>> 1. cover more PMDs to increase port_id range.
>> 2. cover more examples to increase port_id range.
>> 3. add 17.11 release note.
>>
>> Changes in V3:
>> 1.  cover mlx4 and mlx5.
>> 2.  add to increase port_id range in test code.
>> 3.  The patch "librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value" is merged
>> into the patchset.
>>
>> Zhiyong Yang (4):
>>    ethdev: increase port_id range
>>    test: increase port_id range
>>    examples: increase port_id range
>>    librte_mbuf: modify port initialization value
>>
> PMD Maintainers, please review this patch for your PMD, this innocent
> uint8_t to uint16_t change may break your PMD!
Regarding the szedata2 PMD this change is fine.

Thanks,
Matej


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