On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 9:58 PM <sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Resource virtualization unit (RVU) on Marvell's OcteonTX2 SOC supports > multiple PCIe SRIOV physical functions (PFs) and virtual functions (VFs). > PF0 is called administrative / admin function (AF) and has privilege access > to registers to provision different RVU functional blocks to each of > PF/VF. > > This admin function (AF) driver acts as a configuration / administrative > software which provisions functional blocks to a PF/VF on demand for them > to work as one of the following > - A basic network controller (i.e NIC). > - NIC with packet filtering, shaping and scheduling capabilities. > - A crypto device. > - A combination of above etc. > > PF/VFs communicate with admin function via a shared memory region. > This patch series adds logic for the following > - RVU AF driver with functional blocks provisioning support > - Mailbox infrastructure for communication between AF and PFs. > - CGX driver which provides information about physcial network > interfaces which AF processes and forwards required info to > PF/VF drivers. > > This is the first set of patches out of 70 odd patches. > > Note: This driver neither receives any data nor processes it i.e no I/O, > just does the hardware configuration. > > Changes from v2: > No changes, submitted again with netdev mailing list in loop. > - Suggested by Arnd Bergmann and Andrew Lunn > > Changes from v1: > 1 Merged RVU admin function and CGX drivers into a single module > - Suggested by Arnd Bergmann > 2 Pulled mbox communication APIs into a separate module to remove > admin function driver dependency in a VM where AF is not attached. > - Suggested by Arnd Bergmann > Hi Arnd, Didn't receive any feedback for the v3 patch series over a week's time. Can you please pick up these patches to merge into arm-soc ? Thanks, Sunil.
