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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] bnx2x: SR-IOV VF driver changes to support OOB PF driver
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:34:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1974226.3A89DWaups@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D24CFBA0.D45A6%harish.patil@qlogic.com>

2015-10-21 15:24, Harish Patil:
> >
> >2015-09-11 17:42, Rasesh Mody:
> >> From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
> >
> >Please explain your change a bit more.
> >
> >
> 
> SR-IOV is supported using bnx2x poll mode driver running as VF driver and
> native linux driver running as PF (in host/hypervisor). There is no issue
> while running with the PF driver which is at the base version as that of
> PMD. However, there is a compatibility issue between newer out-of-box PF
> drivers with older VF driver. So the newer VFs would also need to send
> BNX2X_VF_TLV_PHYS_PORT_ID (among other TLVs) to differentiate between
> newer and older VFs.

So the title should be "update VF to support new PF drivers".
Please put the detailed explanation in the commit message.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-12  0:42 [PATCH 0/5] bnx2x: Enhancement, fixes, licensing and doumentation Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12  0:42 ` [PATCH 1/5] bnx2x: SR-IOV VF driver changes to support OOB PF driver Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:10   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21 15:24     ` Harish Patil
2015-10-21 15:34       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-10-21 15:42         ` Harish Patil
2015-09-12  0:42 ` [PATCH 2/5] bnx2x: Fix x86_64-native-linuxapp-clang build error Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:11   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-23 16:36     ` Harish Patil
2015-10-23 16:42       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-03  6:27         ` Harish Patil
2015-09-12  0:42 ` [PATCH 3/5] bnx2x: Add RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_REG_ACCESS config option Rasesh Mody
2015-10-20 16:18   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-23 22:28     ` Harish Patil
2015-10-24 13:09       ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-07  3:08         ` Harish Patil
2015-11-07 21:53           ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-08 16:14             ` Harish Patil
2015-09-12  0:42 ` [PATCH 4/5] doc: Add BNX2X PMD documentation Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12  0:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] bnx2x: Add LICENSE.bnx2x_pmd and update source files Rasesh Mody
2015-09-12  1:17 ` [PATCH 0/5] bnx2x: Enhancement, fixes, licensing and doumentation Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-12  2:27   ` Harish Patil

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