From: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
Asaf Penso <asafp@mellanox.com>,
Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] net: new vdpa PMD for Mellanox devices
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:47:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB3PR0502MB4028B30BA6DC45A34921F340D2AC0@DB3PR0502MB4028.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
The last Mellanox adapters\SoCs support virtio operations to accelerate the vhost data path.
A new net PMD will be added to implement the vdpa driver requirements on top of Mellanox
devices support it like ConnectX6 and BlueField.
Points:
* The mlx5_vdpa PMD run on top of PCI devices VF and PF.
* The Mellanox PCI device can be configured ether to support ethdev device or to support vdpa device.
* An one physical device can contain ethdev VFs\PF driven by the mlx5 PMD and vdpa VFs\PF driven by the new mlx5_vdpa PMD parallelly.
* The decision which driver should be selected to probe Mellanox PCI device should be taken by the user using the PCI device devargs.
* mlx5 and mlx5_vdpa depend in rdma-core lib so some code may be shared between them,
due that a new mlx5 common directory will be added in drivers/commom for code reusing.
* All the guest physical memory of the virtqs will be translated to the host physical memory by the HW.
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