[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/10] mempool/octeontx: probe timvf PCIe devices

[Jerin Jacob]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:06:52 +0530
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
> To: jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com, santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com,
>  erik.g.carrillo at intel.com
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org, Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/10] mempool/octeontx: probe timvf PCIe devices
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> 
> On Octeontx HW, each event timer device is enumerated as separate SRIOV VF
> PCIe device.
> 
> In order to expose as a event timer device:
> On PCIe probe, the driver stores the information associated with the
> PCIe device and later when appliacation requests for a event timer device
> through `rte_event_timer_adapter_create` the driver infrastructure creates
> the timer adapter with earlier probed PCIe VF devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mempool/octeontx/Makefile                  |   1 +
>  drivers/mempool/octeontx/meson.build               |   1 +
>  drivers/mempool/octeontx/octeontx_mbox.h           |   7 +
>  drivers/mempool/octeontx/octeontx_timvf.c          | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  .../octeontx/rte_mempool_octeontx_version.map      |   3 +
>  usertools/dpdk-devbind.py                          |   8 ++

I suggest to have separate patch for usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
common code change.

> diff --git a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> index 18d938607..340643b70 100755
> --- a/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> +++ b/usertools/dpdk-devbind.py
> @@ -22,11 +22,14 @@
>                'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
>  cavium_pkx = {'Class': '08', 'Vendor': '177d', 'Device': 'a0dd,a049',
>                'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
> +cavium_tim = {'Class': '08', 'Vendor': '177d', 'Device': 'a051',
> +              'SVendor': None, 'SDevice': None}
>  
>  network_devices = [network_class, cavium_pkx]
>  crypto_devices = [encryption_class, intel_processor_class]
>  eventdev_devices = [cavium_sso]
>  mempool_devices = [cavium_fpa]
> +eventtimer_devices = [cavium_tim]

In order to reduce number of different type of device, IMO, we could
group this also as "eventdev_devices" as it comes as sub device of
eventdev.

ie.
eventdev_devices = [cavium_sso, cavium_tim]