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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Bert van Leeuwen <bert.vanleeuwen@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: check number of queues less than RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:42:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3059112.zVgrzqmBCq@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478786449-44745-1-git-send-email-alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>

2016-11-10 14:00, Alejandro Lucero:
> From: Bert van Leeuwen <bert.vanleeuwen@netronome.com>
> 
> A device can have more than RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS queues which
> is used inside struct rte_eth_stats. Ideally, DPDK should be built with
> RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS to the maximum number of queues a device
> can support, 65536, as uint16_t is used for keeping those values for
> RX and TX. But of course, having such big arrays inside struct rte_eth_stats
> is not a good idea.

RTE_ETHDEV_QUEUE_STAT_CNTRS come from a limitation in Intel devices.
They have limited number of registers to store the stats per queue.

> Current default value is 16, which could likely be changed to 32 or 64
> without too much opposition. And maybe it would be a good idea to modify
> struct rte_eth_stats for allowing dynamically allocated arrays and maybe
> some extra fields for keeping the array sizes.

Yes
and? what is your issue exactly? with which device?
Please explain the idea brought by your patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-10 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-10 14:00 Alejandro Lucero
2016-11-10 14:42 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-11-10 15:43   ` Alejandro Lucero
2016-11-10 16:01     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-10 16:04       ` Alejandro Lucero
2016-11-11  9:16         ` Alejandro Lucero
2016-11-11  9:29           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-11  9:32             ` Alejandro Lucero
2016-11-11  9:48             ` Bert van Leeuwen

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