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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	"pbhagavatula@marvell.com" <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	"jerinj@marvell.com" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"ferruh.yigit@intel.com" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
	Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] ethdev: add mbuf RSS update as a offload
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 04:52:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR0502MB3795D9B07E23E43B8CBDD49FC3A90@AM0PR0502MB3795.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <672afa31-6f88-9099-f4c7-e85a24959c0e@solarflare.com>

Friday, August 16, 2019 10:48 AM, Andrew Rybchenko:
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] ethdev: add mbuf RSS update as a
> offload
> 
> On 8/16/19 8:55 AM, pbhagavatula@marvell.com wrote:
> > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> >
> > Add new Rx offload flag `DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH` which can be used
> to
> > enable/disable PMDs write to `rte_mbuf::hash::rss`.
> 
> It should be highlighted that presence of the RSS hash is indicated by
> PKT_RX_RSS_HASH flag in mbuf anyway. Now applications have a way to
> check that RSS hash delivery is supported and should enable the offload if
> RSS hash is used. PMD may still provide the hash even if the offload is not
> enabled.

I don't understand how PMDs should act w/ this addition when considering the API breakage to application. 

Currently application don't set this flag, and expect to get the RSS hash result on mbuf. 
If PMDs will not set the RSS hash result when flag is not present then applications might break.
If they will always set, then there is no meaning for it.

as I understand the motivation to save few cycles on the PMD receive path, if we want to include it we should treat it as API breakage and documents it on the release notes.
My option is that some offload should just be usable (OOB) by the fact user enabled them (e.g. RSS). no need to complicate the user by checking and set this field. 


> 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> 
> with above and one note below fixed.
> 
> > ---
> >   doc/guides/nics/features.rst   | 2 ++
> >   lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h | 1 +
> >   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> > b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst index d4d55f721..f79b69b38 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features.rst
> > @@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ Supports RSS hashing on RX.
> >
> >   * **[uses]     user config**: ``dev_conf.rxmode.mq_mode`` =
> ``ETH_MQ_RX_RSS_FLAG``.
> >   * **[uses]     user config**: ``dev_conf.rx_adv_conf.rss_conf``.
> > +* **[uses]     rte_eth_rxconf,rte_eth_rxmode**:
> ``offloads:DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH``.
> >   * **[provides] rte_eth_dev_info**: ``flow_type_rss_offloads``.
> >   * **[provides] mbuf**: ``mbuf.ol_flags:PKT_RX_RSS_HASH``, ``mbuf.rss``.
> >
> > @@ -286,6 +287,7 @@ Inner RSS
> >   Supports RX RSS hashing on Inner headers.
> >
> >   * **[uses]    rte_flow_action_rss**: ``level``.
> > +* **[uses]    rte_eth_rxconf,rte_eth_rxmode**:
> ``offloads:DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH``.
> >   * **[provides] mbuf**: ``mbuf.ol_flags:PKT_RX_RSS_HASH``, ``mbuf.rss``.
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h index f97f0a6e5..889486a11 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.h
> > @@ -1013,6 +1013,7 @@ struct rte_eth_conf {
> >   #define DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_KEEP_CRC		0x00010000
> >   #define DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCTP_CKSUM	0x00020000
> >   #define DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_OUTER_UDP_CKSUM  0x00040000
> > +#define DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_RSS_HASH		0x00080000
> 
> Should be added to rte_rx_offload_names in
> lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-18  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16  5:55 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] ethdev: add new Rx offload flags pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] ethdev: add set ptype function pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  8:22   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-17 16:27     ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] ethdev: add mbuf RSS update as a offload pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  7:48   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-17 11:47     ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-08-18  4:52     ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2019-08-18  5:38       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-18  6:18         ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-08-18  7:00           ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-18 12:11             ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/7] ethdev: add flow action type update as an offload pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  8:05   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-17 14:23     ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-08-18  9:46       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-18  4:59     ` [dpdk-dev] " Shahaf Shuler
2019-08-18  5:57       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-18  6:20         ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-08-18  7:08           ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/7] net: update Rx RSS hash offload capabilities pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  7:49   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-17 12:26     ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/7] net: update Rx flow action " pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  7:50   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] net: add ptype set default functionality pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  8:30   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-08-17 17:24     ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2019-08-16  5:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] examples/eventdev_pipeline: add new Rx RSS hash offload pbhagavatula
2019-08-16  6:01   ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-08-16  6:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] ethdev: add new Rx offload flags Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran

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