From: tanhuazhong <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <salil.mehta@huawei.com>,
<yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>, <linuxarm@huawei.com>,
Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: hns3: add support for VF to query ring and vector mapping
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 08:56:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <443b7ad5-b437-f22c-78ca-52fbec0d092a@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200522103907.2eec2b6e@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On 2020/5/23 1:39, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2020 10:49:42 +0800 Huazhong Tan wrote:
>> From: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
>>
>> This patch adds support for VF to query the mapping of ring and
>> vector.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
>
Hi, Jakub.
> Could you explain a little more what this is doing?
This patch just adds a new type of mailbox for VF to the mapping of ring
and vector through PF. not a complicated feature;).
>
> Also what's using this? In the series nothing is making this request.
>
As mentioned in the cover, "this is needed by the hns3 DPDK VF PMD
driver", current the VF driver of linux kernel does need this info.
Should this also mention in this commit log?
Thanks.
> .
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 2:49 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: hns3: misc updates for -next Huazhong Tan
2020-05-22 2:49 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: hns3: add support for VF to query ring and vector mapping Huazhong Tan
2020-05-22 17:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-05-23 0:56 ` tanhuazhong [this message]
2020-05-22 21:23 ` David Miller
2020-05-22 2:49 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: hns3: add a resetting check in hclgevf_init_nic_client_instance() Huazhong Tan
2020-05-22 2:49 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: hns3: change the order of reinitializing RoCE and NIC client during reset Huazhong Tan
2020-05-22 2:49 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: hns3: remove unnecessary MAC enable in app loopback Huazhong Tan
2020-05-22 2:49 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: hns3: add a print for initializing CMDQ when reset pending Huazhong Tan
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