From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruce Richardson Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/3] i40e: add floating VEB extension support Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:57:53 +0100 Message-ID: <20160609155752.GH12520@bricha3-MOBL3> References: <1458895321-21896-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> <1464110886-9504-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> <1464110886-9504-4-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org, jingjing.wu@intel.com To: Zhe Tao Return-path: Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D4828FD for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2016 17:57:56 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1464110886-9504-4-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:28:06AM +0800, Zhe Tao wrote: > To enable this feature, the user should pass a devargs parameter to the EAL > like "-w 84:00.0,enable_floating=1", and the application will make sure the PMD > will use the floating VEB feature for all the VFs created by this PF device. > > Also you can specifiy which VF need to connect to this floating veb using > "floating_bitmap", every bit corresponding to one VF (e.g. bitn for VFn). > Like "-w 84:00.0,enable_floating=1,floating_bitmap=1", means only the VF0 connect > to the floating VEB, VF1 connect to the legacy VEB. Is there only ever one floating VEB inside a PF? That perhaps needs to be called out in the explanation of what the floating VEB is? /Bruce