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From: "Wang, Haiyue" <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
To: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	"Ye, Xiaolong" <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, "Zhang, Qi Z" <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	"Yang, Qiming" <qiming.yang@intel.com>,
	"Xing, Beilei" <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	"Zhao1, Wei" <wei.zhao1@intel.com>,
	Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, "ci@dpdk.org" <ci@dpdk.org>,
	"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/4] add Intel DCF PMD support
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 02:00:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e41838b091d74372b575569d4227a698@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4ff974e-0c33-4837-a58a-27f2c9a26f8b@redhat.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 03:34
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>; Ye, Xiaolong
> <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
> Cc: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang@intel.com>; dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; Yang,
> Qiming <qiming.yang@intel.com>; Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing@intel.com>; Zhao1, Wei <wei.zhao1@intel.com>;
> Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>; ci@dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/4] add Intel DCF PMD support
> 
> On 09/03/2020 17:57, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 09/03/2020 17:20, Ye Xiaolong:
> >> Hi, David
> >>
> >> On 03/09, David Marchand wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 3:22 PM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> A DCF (Device Config Function) based approach is proposed where a device
> >>>> bound to the device's VF0 can act as a sole controlling entity to exercise
> >>>> advance functionality (such as switch, ACL) for rest of the VFs.
> >>>>
> >>>> The DCF works as a standalone PMD to support this function, which shares the
> >>>> ice PMD flow control core function and the iavf virtchnl mailbox core module.
> >>>>
> >>>> This patchset is based on:
> >>>> [1] https://patchwork.dpdk.org/cover/66417/ update ice base code
> >>>
> >>> The problem is that the CI(s) won't handle this.
> >>> Example for the robot: https://travis-ci.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/builds/152461907
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we could add something as an annotation to the cover letter or
> >>> the first patch of a series so that the CI(s) can detect and try to be
> >>> intelligent?
> >>
> >> Agree, It'd be helpful if the cover letter of the first patch contains some
> >> base tree info including the base commit and dependency patchset info (if any),
> >> so the CI can determine the correct base on top of which the developer's
> >> patchset applies to avoid any apply issue and potential false positive.
> >>
> >> And I know there is one option '--base'' of `git format-patch` which is
> >> dedicated for this kind of usage, it can help create the base tree info block
> >> which can be easily consumed by the CI. Here is the simple intro of it.
> >>
> >> Imagine that on top of the public commit P (already in upstream), the developer
> >> applied well-known (on-flight, in the mailing list but not merged yet) patches
> >> X, Y and Z from somebody else or himself, and then built his three-patch series
> >> A, B, C, the commit history would be like:
> >>
> >> ................................................
> >> ---P---X---Y---Z---A---B---C
> >> ................................................
> >>
> >> With `git format-patch --base=P -3 C`,
> >>
> >> where P could be the exact commit sha, or variants e.g. HEAD~6, we can also use
> >> --base=auto for convenience, the base tree information block will be shown at
> >> the end of the first message the command outputs (either the first patch, or
> >> the cover letter), like this:
> >>
> >> ------------
> >> base-commit: P
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: X
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: Y
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: Z
> >> ------------
> >>
> >> Here P is the commit sha, and X,Y,Z are the patch ids of the dependency patches.
> >>
> >>
> >> With this info in place, I think CI should be able to setup the exact base for
> >> the coming patchset, the missing part I can see is the mapping of
> >> (in-flight patch <-> patch id), since we have all the in-flight patches in
> >> patchwork, creating and maintaining such mapping in DB is doable, what do you
> >> think?
> >
> > I think it would simpler to list dependencies as patchwork ids.
> > Example:
> > 	Depends-on: series-42, patch-12345
> >
> 

Just list the 'series' ? Since it can download the whole patchset with
the single link format like:

Depends-on: series-8843  --> https://patchwork.dpdk.org/series/8843/mbox/

> +1. I don't think it should depend on a base-commit. If it doesn't
> apply/build/work with the latest upstream code then it's a valid error.
> 
> >


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-10  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-09 14:14 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/4] add Intel DCF PMD support Haiyue Wang
2020-03-09 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/4] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-09 15:38   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-10  2:19     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-10  3:37       ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-10  4:26         ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-23  1:50   ` Wu, Jingjing
2020-03-23  1:55     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-09 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/4] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-09 16:25   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-09 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/4] net/ice: add the DCF framework Haiyue Wang
2020-03-10  4:17   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-10  5:09     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-10  5:23       ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-09 14:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 4/4] doc: add release notes for Intel ice PMD Haiyue Wang
2020-03-09 15:22   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-10  2:16     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-09 15:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/4] add Intel DCF PMD support David Marchand
2020-03-09 16:20   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-09 17:57     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-09 19:34       ` Kevin Traynor
2020-03-10  2:00         ` Wang, Haiyue [this message]
2020-03-10  7:48           ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-10  9:36             ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-10 14:11               ` Aaron Conole
2020-03-10 14:09   ` Aaron Conole
2020-03-10  6:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] " Haiyue Wang
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-13  5:27     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization Haiyue Wang
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] net/ice: initiate to acquire the DCF capability Haiyue Wang
2020-03-13  5:51     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-13  6:19       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-13  6:04     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-13  6:10       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-13  7:59     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-13  8:03       ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-16  4:52       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-13 14:06     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-13 14:11       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-10  6:50   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-13  7:01     ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-16  5:58       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-13 16:19   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support Stillwell Jr, Paul M
2020-03-13 16:25     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-13 16:50       ` Stillwell Jr, Paul M
2020-03-13 17:05         ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-13 17:47           ` Stillwell Jr, Paul M
2020-03-14  1:57             ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-15  1:49     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-03-16 18:54       ` Stillwell Jr, Paul M
2020-03-17  2:35         ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-16  5:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/7] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/7] net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/7] net/ice: acquire and disable the DCF capability Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/7] net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/7] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-16  5:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/7] net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:28     ` Wu, Jingjing
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/7] net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/7] net/ice: acquire and disable the DCF capability Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/7] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  3:03   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/7] net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  4:11   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support Zhang, Qi Z
2020-03-26  5:05   ` Ye Xiaolong
2020-03-26  5:26     ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-26  7:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/7] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/7] net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/7] net/ice: acquire and disable the DCF capability Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/7] net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/7] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-26  7:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 7/7] net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/7] net/iavf: stop the PCI probe in DCF mode Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/7] net/ice: add the DCF hardware initialization Haiyue Wang
2020-03-31  8:50     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-03-31 12:17       ` Wang, Haiyue
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/7] net/ice: acquire and disable the DCF capability Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/7] net/ice: handle the AdminQ command by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/7] net/ice: export the DDP definition symbols Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 6/7] net/ice: handle the PF initialization by DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27  2:56   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/7] net/ice: get the VF hardware index in DCF Haiyue Wang
2020-03-27 15:26   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/7] add Intel DCF PMD support Ye Xiaolong

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