All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add flower app with representors
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:09:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170622190957.GB29904@vergenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMiqCd9RQYBEANikw0cJRBR9cBRrucRZ1bPZQb2ML7V3PA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:39:09PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Simon Horman
> <simon.horman@netronome.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patchset is in two parts.
> >
> > The first 9 patches add code to allow representors to be instantiated
> > etc... The remaining patches provide the beginning of a flower app which
> > makes use of this infrastructure. So I think there is a clear separation
> > between representor code, in .../nfp/ and app code that uses representors,
> > in this case .../nfp/flower/.
> 
> indeed, got it.
> 
> > I could have supplied a test app to demonstrate using representors - and
> > that is really what the flower app is as of this patchset. But I chose to
> > name it flower as it we have follow-up work to make the app actually
> > offload flower and at that point that will be come its dominant feature.
> 
> As you stated, the separation is there. If got you right, it will be possible to
> use representors in non flower apps, and probably also possible to have
> the flower app used in a non-SRIOV environment, just fine.

Yes, that is correct.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-22 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-20  5:51 [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add flower app with representors Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: store port/representator id in metadata_dst Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 02/12] nfp: devlink add support for getting eswitch mode Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 03/12] nfp: move physical port init into a helper Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 04/12] nfp: map mac_stats and vf_cfg BARs Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 05/12] nfp: general representor implementation Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 06/12] nfp: add stats and xmit helpers for representors Simon Horman
2017-06-20 17:15   ` kbuild test robot
2017-06-20 20:48     ` Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 07/12] nfp: app callbacks for SRIOV Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 08/12] nfp: provide nfp_port to of nfp_net_get_mac_addr() Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 09/12] nfp: add support for tx/rx with metadata portid Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 10/12] nfp: add support for control messages for flower app Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] nfp: add " Simon Horman
2017-06-20  5:51 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] nfp: add VF and PF representors to " Simon Horman
2017-06-20 16:13 ` [PATCH net-next 00/12] nfp: add flower app with representors Or Gerlitz
2017-06-20 19:19   ` Simon Horman
2017-06-20 19:24   ` [oss-drivers] " Jakub Kicinski
2017-06-21  9:00     ` Or Gerlitz
2017-06-21  9:32       ` Simon Horman
2017-06-22 14:39         ` Or Gerlitz
2017-06-22 19:09           ` Simon Horman [this message]
2017-06-21  9:42       ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-06-22 14:28         ` Or Gerlitz
2017-06-23  5:50           ` Jakub Kicinski

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20170622190957.GB29904@vergenet.net \
    --to=simon.horman@netronome.com \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=gerlitz.or@gmail.com \
    --cc=jakub.kicinski@netronome.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=oss-drivers@netronome.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.