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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:18:52AM +0000, Nipun Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a few queries/comments regarding the eventdev patches.
>
> Please see inline.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jerin Jacob
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 14:55
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; bruce.richardson@intel.com; Hemant
> > Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; gage.eads@intel.com;
> > harry.van.haaren@intel.com; Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
> > programming model
> >
> > In a polling model, lcores poll ethdev ports and associated
> > rx queues directly to look for packet. In an event driven model,
> > by contrast, lcores call the scheduler that selects packets for
> > them based on programmer-specified criteria. Eventdev library
> > adds support for event driven programming model, which offer
> > applications automatic multicore scaling, dynamic load balancing,
> > pipelining, packet ingress order maintenance and
> > synchronization services to simplify application packet processing.
> >
> > By introducing event driven programming model, DPDK can support
> > both polling and event driven programming models for packet processing,
> > and applications are free to choose whatever model
> > (or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.
> >
> > This patch adds the eventdev specification header file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 3 +
> > doc/api/doxy-api-index.md | 1 +
> > doc/api/doxy-api.conf | 1 +
> > lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 1275
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 4 files changed, 1280 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
>
> <snip>
>
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * Event device information
> > + */
> > +struct rte_event_dev_info {
> > + const char *driver_name; /**< Event driver name */
> > + struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev; /**< PCI information */
>
> With 'rte_device' in place (rte_dev.h), should we not have 'rte_device' instead of 'rte_pci_device' here?
Yes. Please post a patch to fix this. As the time of merging to
next-eventdev tree it was not the case.
>
> > + * The number of events dequeued is the number of scheduler contexts held by
> > + * this port. These contexts are automatically released in the next
> > + * rte_event_dequeue_burst() invocation, or invoking
> > rte_event_enqueue_burst()
> > + * with RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE operation can be used to release the
> > + * contexts early.
> > + *
> > + * @param dev_id
> > + * The identifier of the device.
> > + * @param port_id
> > + * The identifier of the event port.
> > + * @param[out] ev
> > + * Points to an array of *nb_events* objects of type *rte_event* structure
> > + * for output to be populated with the dequeued event objects.
> > + * @param nb_events
> > + * The maximum number of event objects to dequeue, typically number of
> > + * rte_event_port_dequeue_depth() available for this port.
> > + *
> > + * @param timeout_ticks
> > + * - 0 no-wait, returns immediately if there is no event.
> > + * - >0 wait for the event, if the device is configured with
> > + * RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT then this function will
> > wait until
> > + * the event available or *timeout_ticks* time.
>
> Just for understanding - Is expectation that rte_event_dequeue_burst() will wait till timeout
> unless requested number of events (nb_events) are not received on the event port?
Yes. If you need any change then a send RFC patch for the header file
change.
>
> > + * if the device is not configured with
> > RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT
> > + * then this function will wait until the event available or
> > + * *dequeue_timeout_ns* ns which was previously supplied to
> > + * rte_event_dev_configure()
> > + *
> > + * @return
> > + * The number of event objects actually dequeued from the port. The return
> > + * value can be less than the value of the *nb_events* parameter when the
> > + * event port's queue is not full.
> > + *
> > + * @see rte_event_port_dequeue_depth()
> > + */
> > +uint16_t
> > +rte_event_dequeue_burst(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id, struct rte_event
> > ev[],
> > + uint16_t nb_events, uint64_t timeout_ticks);
> > +
>
> <Snip>
>
> Regards,
> Nipun