Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-03-08 Thread Xueming(Steven) Li
>-Original Message- >From: Ferruh Yigit >Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:12 AM >To: Xueming(Steven) Li ; Andrew Rybchenko > >Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso >; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon >; Ray Kinsella ; Neil Horman > >Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to ge

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-03-08 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 3/8/2021 3:31 PM, Xueming(Steven) Li wrote: -Original Message- From: Ferruh Yigit Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:44 PM To: Xueming(Steven) Li ; Andrew Rybchenko Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso ; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon ; Ray Kinsella ; Neil Horman Subject: Re

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-03-08 Thread Xueming(Steven) Li
>-Original Message- >From: Ferruh Yigit >Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 10:44 PM >To: Xueming(Steven) Li ; Andrew Rybchenko > >Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Slava Ovsiienko ; Asaf Penso >; NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon >; Ray Kinsella ; Neil Horman > >Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-03-08 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 3/4/2021 2:30 PM, 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 represen

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 7/9] ethdev: new API to get representor info

2021-03-04 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