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[v9,10/10] doc/release: add representor enhancements

Message ID 1615468416-10115-11-git-send-email-xuemingl@nvidia.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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Series ethdev: support SubFunction representor |

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Commit Message

Xueming Li March 11, 2021, 1:13 p.m. UTC 
  Updates 21.05 release notes to include representor enhancements.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
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 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
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diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
index 23f7f0bff9..d9e23756d1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
@@ -70,6 +70,24 @@  New Features
   * Added command to display Rx queue used descriptor count.
     ``show port (port_id) rxq (queue_id) desc used count``
 
+* **Ethdev representor enhancement**
+
+    Enhanced ethdev representor to support SubFunction and multi-host::
+
+      representor=#            [0,2-4]      /* Legacy VF compatible.         */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]vf# c1pf2vf3     /* VF 3 on PF 2 of controller 1. */
+      representor=[[c#]pf#]sf# sf[0,2-1023] /* 1023 SFs.                     */
+      representor=[c#]pf#      c2pf[0,1]    /* 2 PFs on controller 2.        */
+
+  * Introduced representor type of VF, SF and PF.
+  * Enhanced representor syntax parsing.
+  * Supported SF and PF type representor.
+  * Supported multi-host in representor.
+  * Added new PMD callback ``representor_info_get`` to get representor info.
+  * Added new helper function ``rte_eth_representor_id_get`` to calculate
+    unique representor ID from info.
+  * Updated representor iterator to match new enhanced syntax.
+
 
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