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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:39:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7598226.ZWVFbVDckq@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140414141030.GB27324-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>

Neil, John,

I think we all want the same thing: simple and generic APIs.

2014-04-14 10:10, John W. Linville:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 03:45:31PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > From the user's point of view, it must be possible to create some virtual
> > devices instead of using real ones. That's --vdev option. Then the device
> > is handled as any other one thanks to its PMD.
> 
> Except that it isn't, or at least it wasn't -- hence my patch to make
> rte_pmd_init_all initialize _all_ PMDs rather than just the hardware
> ones.  I hope that will be remedied once all the dust settles with
> the patchsets currently in flight.

Yes there should not be any difference between PMDs for registering them.
And rte_pmd_init_all is not needed.
Please provide a patch to register all of them with constructors.

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-14 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-28 17:25 [PATCH 00/11] eal: allow virtual pmd drivers as shared lib Olivier Matz
     [not found] ` <1393608350-4431-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 01/11] mk: use whole-archive option when creating dpdk binaries Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-2-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 13:58       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 02/11] devices-args: introduce rte_devargs in eal Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-3-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-28 21:39       ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]         ` <20140228133929.03844b24-We1ePj4FEcvRI77zikRAJc56i+j3xesD0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:02           ` Olivier MATZ
     [not found]             ` <5311CC3E.1010804-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:14               ` [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]                 ` <1393676055-17655-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 13:59                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 03/11] devices-args: use rte_devargs and remove old whitelist code Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-4-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:14       ` [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]         ` <1393676074-17703-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:01           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 04/11] devices-args: add a dump_devargs command in basic test application Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-5-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:02       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 05/11] pci: rename device_list as pci_device_list Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-6-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:03       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 06/11] vdev: rename eal_common_nonpci_devs.c as eal_common_vdev.c Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-7-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:39       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11  7:36         ` [PATCH v2 06/11] vdev: rename nonpci_devs as vdev Olivier Matz
     [not found]           ` <1397201793-26580-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 11:25             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 11:45               ` [PATCH v3 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]                 ` <1397216703-30301-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 12:37                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 07/11] vdev: allow external registration of virtual device drivers Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-8-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:55       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11  7:36         ` [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API Olivier Matz
     [not found]           ` <1397201813-26627-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11  7:36             ` [PATCH v2 07/11 2/2] vdev: allow external registration of virtual device drivers Olivier Matz
     [not found]               ` <1397201813-26627-2-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 14:31                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 10:49             ` [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API Neil Horman
     [not found]               ` <20140411104929.GA911-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 13:11                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 15:50                   ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                     ` <20140411155000.GD911-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 16:18                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-11 17:44                         ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                           ` <20140411174454.GE911-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 20:08                             ` Richardson, Bruce
     [not found]                               ` <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B01A9FC02F-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-12  6:05                                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-12 11:03                                   ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                                     ` <20140412110317.GA30887-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-12 11:23                                       ` Richardson, Bruce
     [not found]                                         ` <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B01A9FC150-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-12 14:06                                           ` Neil Horman
2014-04-14 13:20                                   ` John W. Linville
     [not found]                                     ` <20140414132053.GA27324-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-14 13:45                                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-04-14 13:54                                         ` Neil Horman
2014-04-14 14:10                                         ` John W. Linville
     [not found]                                           ` <20140414141030.GB27324-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-14 14:39                                             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-04-11 14:31             ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 08/11] device-args: use a comma instead of semicolon to separate key/values Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-9-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:05       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 09/11] device-args: replace use-device eal option by pci-whitelist and vdev Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-10-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:14       ` [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]         ` <1393676085-17745-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:06           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-03-03 17:14       ` [PATCH " Richardson, Bruce
     [not found]         ` <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B01A9A16C7-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-04 13:09           ` Olivier MATZ
     [not found]             ` <5315D081.20506-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-04 13:14               ` Richardson, Bruce
     [not found]                 ` <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B01A9A1AC3-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-24 22:39                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 10/11] device-args: allow to provide per pci device command line arguments Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-11-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:14       ` [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]         ` <1393676094-17787-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:06           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-02-28 17:25   ` [PATCH 11/11] testpmd: add several dump commands, useful for debug Olivier Matz
     [not found]     ` <1393608350-4431-12-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-01 12:15       ` [PATCH v2 " Olivier Matz
     [not found]         ` <1393676101-17830-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-10 14:08           ` Thomas Monjalon

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