Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-02-16 Thread Xueming(Steven) Li
>-Original Message- >From: Andrew Rybchenko >Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 4:50 PM >To: Xueming(Steven) Li >Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso >; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon >; Ferruh Yigit ; Ray Kinsella >; Neil Horman > >Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/9] ethdev: new API to ge

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-02-15 Thread Andrew Rybchenko
On 2/14/21 6:21 AM, Xueming Li wrote: > The NIC can have multiple PCIe links and can be attached to multiple > hosts, for example the same single NIC can be shared for multiple server > units in the rack. On each PCIe link NIC can provide multiple PFs and > VFs/SFs based on these ones. The full rep

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-02-13 Thread Xueming Li
The NIC can have multiple PCIe links and can be attached to multiple hosts, for example the same single NIC can be shared for multiple server units in the rack. On each PCIe link NIC can provide multiple PFs and VFs/SFs based on these ones. The full representor identifier consists of three indices