From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shahaf Shuler Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] net/mlx5: replace IPC socket with EAL API Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:31:18 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20190307073314.18324-1-yskoh@mellanox.com> <20190325191545.20707-1-yskoh@mellanox.com> <20190325191545.20707-3-yskoh@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Yongseok Koh Return-path: Received: from EUR03-VE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-eopbgr50062.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.5.62]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856A32C28 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:31:19 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20190325191545.20707-3-yskoh@mellanox.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Monday, March 25, 2019 9:16 PM, Yongseok Koh: > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/mlx5: replace IPC socket with EAL > API >=20 > Socket API is used for IPC in order for secondary process to acquire Verb > command file descriptor. The FD is used to remap UAR address. The new > multi-process APIs (rte_mp) in EAL are newly introduced. mlx5_socket.c is > replaced with mlx5_mp.c, which uses the new APIs. >=20 > As it is PMD global infrastructure, only one IPC channel is established. > All the IPC message types may have port_id in the message if there is nee= d > to reference a specific device. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler