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Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2014 09:55:56 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, nhorman@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	john.fastabend@...il.com, matthew.vick@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 00/29] Add support for the Intel FM10000
 Ethernet Switch Host Interface

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:35:37AM CEST, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com wrote:
>This patch series adds support for the FM10000 Ethernet switch host
>interface.  The Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch is a 48-port Ethernet switch
>supporting both Ethernet ports and PCI Express host interfaces.  The fm10k
>driver provides support for the host interface portion of the switch, both
>PF and VF.
>
>As the host interfaces are directly connected to the switch this results in
>some significant differences versus a standard network driver.  For example
>there is no PHY or MII on the device.  Since packets are delivered directly
>from the switch to the host interface these are unnecessary.  Otherwise most
>of the functionality is very similar to our other network drivers such as
>ixgbe or igb.  For example we support all the standard network offloads,
>jumbo frames, SR-IOV (64 VFS), PTP, and some VXLAN and NVGRE offloads.

I'm very happy to see this patchset in the wind. Great news! I have
couple of questions:

Do you also plan to introduce support for FM6000?

>From what I understand, there is one netdev instance for the whole switch (PF).
How can user get stats and info for particular ports? This topic was
discussed many times and I believe that general consensus is to have 1
netdev instance to represent one switch port (that is for example how we
do it in rocker driver).

Thanks.


>
>---
>
>Alexander Duyck (29):
>      fm10k: Add skeletal frame for Intel(R) FM10000 Ethernet Switch Host Interface Driver
>      fm10k: Add register defines and basic structures
>      fm10k: Add support for TLV message parsing and generation
>      fm10k: Add support for basic interaction with hardware
>      fm10k: Add support for mailbox
>      fm10k: Implement PF <-> SM mailbox operations
>      fm10k: Add support for PF
>      fm10k: Add support for configuring PF interface
>      fm10k: Add netdev
>      fm10k: Add support for L2 filtering
>      fm10k: Add support for ndo_open/stop
>      fm10k: Add interrupt support
>      fm10k: add support for Tx/Rx rings
>      fm10k: Add service task to handle delayed events
>      fm10k: Add Tx/Rx hardware ring bring-up/tear-down
>      fm10k: Add transmit and receive fastpath and interrupt handlers
>      fm10k: Add ethtool support
>      fm10k: Add support for PCI power management and error handling
>      fm10k: Add support for multiple queues
>      fm10k: Add support for netdev offloads
>      fm10k: Add support for MACVLAN acceleration
>      fm10k: Add support for PF <-> VF mailbox
>      fm10k: Add support for VF
>      fm10k: Add support for SR-IOV to PF core files
>      fm10k: Add support for SR-IOV to driver
>      fm10k: Add support for IEEE DCBx
>      fm10k: Add support for debugfs
>      fm10k: Add support for ptp to hw specific files
>      fm10k: Add support for PTP
>
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig               |   19 
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Makefile              |    1 
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/Makefile        |   33 
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h         |  532 +++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_common.c  |  534 +++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_common.h  |   65 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_dcbnl.c   |  174 ++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_debugfs.c |  259 +++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ethtool.c | 1069 +++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c     |  536 +++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c    | 1978 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c     | 2125 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.h     |  307 +++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c  | 1424 ++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pci.c     | 2166 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pf.c      | 1849 +++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pf.h      |  135 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ptp.c     |  535 +++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_tlv.c     |  863 +++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_tlv.h     |  186 ++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_type.h    |  769 ++++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_vf.c      |  552 ++++++
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_vf.h      |   78 +
> 23 files changed, 16189 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_common.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_common.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_dcbnl.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_debugfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ethtool.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_mbx.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_netdev.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pci.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pf.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_pf.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_ptp.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_tlv.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_tlv.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_type.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_vf.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_vf.h
>
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