[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/5] eal: add Port Representor command-line option

Remy Horton remy.horton at intel.com
Mon Jan 8 15:37:17 CET 2018


Port Representors provide a logical presentation in DPDK of VF (virtual
function) ports for the purposes of control and monitoring. Each port
representor device represents a single VF and is associated with it's
parent physical function (PF) PMD which provides the back-end hooks for
the representor device ops and defines the control domain to which that
port belongs. This allows to use existing DPDK APIs to monitor and control
the port without the need to create and maintain VF specific APIs.

By default the Port Representor infrastructure is not enabled. This
patch implements the --enable-representor EAL command-line parameter
that activates representation functionality.

Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c            | 6 ++++++
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 1 +
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h   | 2 ++
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_options.h        | 2 ++
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h    | 8 ++++++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c          | 9 +++++++++
 6 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index 369a682..002200a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -778,3 +778,9 @@ int rte_vfio_noiommu_is_enabled(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/* return non-zero if port-representor is enabled. */
+int rte_representor_enabled(void)
+{
+	return internal_config.enable_representor;
+}
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
index 996a034..6f2cc05 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ const struct option
 eal_long_options[] = {
 	{OPT_BASE_VIRTADDR,     1, NULL, OPT_BASE_VIRTADDR_NUM    },
 	{OPT_CREATE_UIO_DEV,    0, NULL, OPT_CREATE_UIO_DEV_NUM   },
+	{OPT_ENABLE_REPRESENTOR, 0, NULL, OPT_ENABLE_REPRESENTOR_NUM   },
 	{OPT_FILE_PREFIX,       1, NULL, OPT_FILE_PREFIX_NUM      },
 	{OPT_HELP,              0, NULL, OPT_HELP_NUM             },
 	{OPT_HUGE_DIR,          1, NULL, OPT_HUGE_DIR_NUM         },
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
index c67685c..b4befe6 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct internal_config {
 										* instead of native TSC */
 	volatile unsigned no_shconf;      /**< true if there is no shared config */
 	volatile unsigned create_uio_dev; /**< true to create /dev/uioX devices */
+	volatile unsigned enable_representor;
+	/**< true to enable port representor broker for all PFs */
 	volatile enum rte_proc_type_t process_type; /**< multi-process proc type */
 	/** true to try allocating memory on specific sockets */
 	volatile unsigned force_sockets;
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_options.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_options.h
index 30e6bb4..c2b2162 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_options.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_options.h
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ enum {
 	OPT_VFIO_INTR_NUM,
 #define OPT_VMWARE_TSC_MAP    "vmware-tsc-map"
 	OPT_VMWARE_TSC_MAP_NUM,
+#define OPT_ENABLE_REPRESENTOR    "enable-representor"
+	OPT_ENABLE_REPRESENTOR_NUM,
 	OPT_LONG_MAX_NUM
 };
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
index 02fa109..d21f704 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
@@ -306,6 +306,14 @@ enum rte_iova_mode rte_eal_iova_mode(void);
 const char *
 rte_eal_mbuf_default_mempool_ops(void);
 
+/**
+ * Get flag for port representor should be enabled or not.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   Returns the enable-representor flag.
+ */
+int rte_representor_enabled(void);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 229eec9..364a8b2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -612,6 +612,10 @@ eal_parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
 			internal_config.mbuf_pool_ops_name = optarg;
 			break;
 
+		case OPT_ENABLE_REPRESENTOR_NUM:
+			internal_config.enable_representor = 1;
+			break;
+
 		default:
 			if (opt < OPT_LONG_MIN_NUM && isprint(opt)) {
 				RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Option %c is not supported "
@@ -1041,3 +1045,8 @@ rte_eal_check_module(const char *module_name)
 	/* Module has been found */
 	return 1;
 }
+
+int rte_representor_enabled(void)
+{
+	return internal_config.enable_representor;
+}
-- 
2.9.5



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