[PATCH v7 3/8] net/gve: add support for device initialization

[Guo, Junfeng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/8] net/gve: add support for device initialization
> 
> On 10/24/2022 6:04 AM, Guo, Junfeng wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 17:50
> >> To: Guo, Junfeng <junfeng.guo at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z
> >> <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Xing,
> >> Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> >> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>;
> >> awogbemila at google.com; Richardson, Bruce
> >> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; hemant.agrawal at nxp.com;
> >> stephen at networkplumber.org; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia at intel.com>;
> >> Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang at intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue
> >> <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 3/8] net/gve: add support for device
> initialization
> >>
> >> On 10/21/2022 10:19 AM, Junfeng Guo wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Support device init and add following devops skeleton:
> >>>    - dev_configure
> >>>    - dev_start
> >>>    - dev_stop
> >>>    - dev_close
> >>>
> >>> Note that build system (including doc) is also added in this patch.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo at intel.com>
> >>
> >> <...>
> >>
> >>> +static int
> >>> +gve_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
> >>> +{
> >>> +       struct gve_priv *priv = eth_dev->data->dev_private;
> >>> +       int max_tx_queues, max_rx_queues;
> >>> +       struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev;
> >>> +       struct gve_registers *reg_bar;
> >>> +       rte_be32_t *db_bar;
> >>> +       int err;
> >>> +
> >>> +       eth_dev->dev_ops = &gve_eth_dev_ops;
> >>> +
> >>> +       if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
> >>> +               return 0;
> >>> +
> >>> +       pci_dev = RTE_DEV_TO_PCI(eth_dev->device);
> >>> +
> >>> +       reg_bar = pci_dev->mem_resource[GVE_REG_BAR].addr;
> >>> +       if (!reg_bar) {
> >>> +               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to map pci bar!");
> >>> +               return -ENOMEM;
> >>> +       }
> >>> +
> >>> +       db_bar = pci_dev->mem_resource[GVE_DB_BAR].addr;
> >>> +       if (!db_bar) {
> >>> +               PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to map doorbell bar!");
> >>> +               return -ENOMEM;
> >>> +       }
> >>> +
> >>> +       gve_write_version(&reg_bar->driver_version);
> >>> +       /* Get max queues to alloc etherdev */
> >>> +       max_tx_queues = ioread32be(&reg_bar->max_tx_queues);
> >>> +       max_rx_queues = ioread32be(&reg_bar->max_rx_queues);
> >>> +
> >>> +       priv->reg_bar0 = reg_bar;
> >>> +       priv->db_bar2 = db_bar;
> >>> +       priv->pci_dev = pci_dev;
> >>> +       priv->state_flags = 0x0;
> >>> +
> >>> +       priv->max_nb_txq = max_tx_queues;
> >>> +       priv->max_nb_rxq = max_rx_queues;
> >>> +
> >>> +       err = gve_init_priv(priv, false);
> >>> +       if (err)
> >>> +               return err;
> >>> +
> >>> +       eth_dev->data->mac_addrs = &priv->dev_addr;
> >>> +
> >>
> >> [copy/paste from previous version]
> >>
> >> What is the value in 'priv->dev_addr'?
> >> Even allocating memory for 'eth_dev->data->mac_addrs' removed or
> not,
> >> as
> >> we discussed, independent from it, need to set a valid value to
> >> 'priv->dev_addr'.
> >
> > The value in 'priv->dev_addr' is the 'real' mac address of the gvnic port.
> > So I suppose that there is no need to set a default valid one, since we
> can
> > get them/it from the backend in gve_adminq_describe_device(priv).
> 
> Ack, thanks for clarification.
> 
> In 'gve_adminq_describe_device()', RTE_ETHER_ADDR_PRT_FMT &
> RTE_ETHER_ADDR_BYTES can be used for log, I will comment on patch.

Thanks for the advice! Will try this in the coming version.