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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: "Ori Kam" <orika@nvidia.com>,
	"Andrew Rybchenko" <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	"Havlík Martin" <xhavli56@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>,
	"Jan Viktorin" <viktorin@cesnet.cz>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
	Chas3 <chas3@att.com>, Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/bonding: start ethdev prior to setting 8023ad flow
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:58:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19363394.Odk5eMyVqo@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210714170019.40bc169a@coaster.localdomain>

14/07/2021 17:00, Jan Viktorin:
> > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:26:35 +0300
> > > Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru> wrote:
> > > > >>> > > This matters for the bonding case as well, doesn't it?.
> > > > >>> > > It is not desirable to accidently omit a packet that was
> > > > >>> > > received by primary ingress logic instead of being
> > > > >>> > > redirected into the dedicated queue.
> > > > >>> > >
> > > > >>> > > Are there any chances that for mlx5 it would be possible
> > > > >>> > > to insert flow rules before calling rte_eth_dev_start?
> > > > >>> > > Anyway, the behaviour should be specified and documented
> > > > >>> > > in DPDK more precisely to avoid such uncertainty in the
> > > > >>> > > future. 
> > > > >>> > I agree the documentation should be fixed.  
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> +1  
> > > >
> > > > Cc Thomas and Ferruh since ethdev documentation should be
> > > > clarified.
> > > >
> > > > It looks like there is no consensus if the patch is a right
> > > > direction or wrong. For me it looks wrong taking all above
> > > > arguments in to account (mainly necessity to be able to insert
> > > > flows before pushing start button which enables the traffic if HW
> > > > supports it).
> > > >
> > > > So, I'm applying first two patches and hold on this one.  
> 
> Andrew, I believe that it would be helpful to start some new thread
> otherwise we would get lost here :). It seems that we will have few
> more fixes for the bonding driver. Do you prefer an entirely new
> patchset or v2 of this topic? Or any other advise how to proceed?

This thread is about 3 things:
	- bonding issue
	- ethdev doc
	- mlx5 design
That's too much topics to address in one thread :)

You may restart the discussion with a doc update
if the stop/start requirement is not clear.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-15 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-22  9:25 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] net/bonding: make dedicated queues work with mlx5 Martin Havlik
2021-06-22  9:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] net/bonding: fix proper return value check and correct log message Martin Havlik
2021-07-08 12:33   ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-07-13  9:26     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-22  9:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] net/bonding: fix not checked return value Martin Havlik
2021-07-08 12:43   ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-07-08 13:20     ` Havlík Martin
2021-07-09  0:09       ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-07-13  9:26         ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-06-22  9:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/bonding: start ethdev prior to setting 8023ad flow Martin Havlik
2021-06-23  7:04   ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-06-24 11:57     ` Havlík Martin
2021-07-04 15:18       ` Matan Azrad
2021-07-07 15:54         ` Jan Viktorin
2021-07-11  8:49           ` Ori Kam
2021-07-11 21:45             ` Jan Viktorin
2021-07-12 13:07               ` Ori Kam
2021-07-13  8:18                 ` Havlík Martin
2021-07-13  9:26                   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-07-13 11:06                     ` Jan Viktorin
2021-07-13 17:17                       ` Ori Kam
2021-07-14 15:00                         ` Jan Viktorin
2021-07-15 13:58                           ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-08-24 13:18                             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-26 10:15                               ` Jan Viktorin
2021-07-04 15:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] net/bonding: make dedicated queues work with mlx5 Andrew Rybchenko
2021-09-25  6:15 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/bonding: start ethdev prior to setting 8023ad flow Havlík Martin

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