vmxnet3 driver supports transmit data ring viz. a set of fixed size
buffers used by the driver to copy packet headers. Small packets that
fit these buffers are copied into these buffers entirely.
Currently this buffer size of fixed at 128 bytes. This patch extends
transmit data ring implementation to allow variable length transmit
data ring buffers. The length of the buffer is read from the emulation
during initialization.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jin Heo <heoj@vmware.com>
Shared memory is used to exchange information between the vmxnet3 driver
and the emulation. In order to request emulation to perform a task, the
driver first populates specific fields in this shared memory and then
issues corresponding command by writing to the command register(CMD). The
layout of the shared memory was defined by vmxnet3 version 1 and cannot
be extended for every new command without breaking backward compatibility.
To address this problem, in vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation repurposed
a reserved field in the shared memory to represent command information
instead. For new commands, the driver first populates the command
information field in the shared memory and then issues the command. The
emulation interprets the data written to the command information
depending on the type of the command. This patch exposes this capability
to the driver.
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Jin Heo <heoj@vmware.com>
This is one of those trivial things git and other tools complain
about.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
This patch adds a note to the README files in the
drivers/net/pmd/base dirs to highlight that the code should not
be modifed by the user apart from the pmd_osdep.[ch] files.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Move vmxnet3 PMD to drivers/net directory.
As part of the move, rename the "vmxnet3" subdirectory, containing the
original FreeBSD drivers, from "vmxnet3" to the more standard name
"base", to indicate it contains the base drivers used for the
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
