[PATCH v3] doc: comment VF does not support multi-process

Ye, MingjinX mingjinx.ye at intel.com
Wed May 17 04:29:21 CEST 2023



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Sent: 2023年5月16日 23:18
> To: Ye, MingjinX <mingjinx.ye at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org; Zhou, YidingX <yidingx.zhou at intel.com>; Wu, Wenjun1
> <wenjun1.wu at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] doc: comment VF does not support multi-process
> 
> On Tue, 16 May 2023 10:22:05 +0000
> Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Announcing that multi-process is not supported
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye at intel.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Modify issue description reason.
> > ---
> > V3: Modify description.
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > index b1d77ab7ab..816d614c33 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
> > @@ -461,3 +461,9 @@ show bypass config  Show the bypass configuration
> > for a bypass enabled NIC using the lowest port on the NIC::
> >
> >     testpmd> show bypass config (port_id)
> > +
> > +VF driver does not support multi-process
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +The VF driver does not support multi-process. And some function
> > +pointers in the case of multi-process are not set correctly.
> 
> This is best done by updating doc/guides/nic/features/ixgbe_vf.ini
> 
> That is enough. Don't need to add note in ixgbe.rst.

I will send the v4 version as soon as possible with a better solution.


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