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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/3] show the Rx/Tx burst description field
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:27:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zFd5jMAtocx9K-ds6khWkTbS-K1_Qi5jQf4+W1dsOLAQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565619305-17116-1-git-send-email-haiyue.wang@intel.com>

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:20 PM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Since some PMDs have multi-path for Rx/Tx, FD.io VPP will tell you in
> the Debug CLI what rx/tx function is being used:
>         #show hardware-interface
>
>          tx burst function: ice_xmit_pkts
>          rx burst function: ice_recv_scattered_pkts
>
> But if the tx/rx is static, then 'dladdr' will return nil:
>
>          tx burst function: (nil) │······················
>          rx burst function: (nil) │······················
>
> For making things consistent and gracefull, we introduce an new string
> field to describe the Rx/Tx burst information. This is vendor-neutral,
> it is used to identify the Rx/Tx burst selection if the PMD has more
> than one.
>
> If a PMD supports this, then rxqinfo/txqinfo->burst_info[0] != '\0'.

The rx/tx handlers are the same for all queues of a ethdev port.
What is the added value to put this in a per queue api ?


-- 
David Marchand

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-12 14:15 Haiyue Wang
2019-08-12 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 1/3] ethdev: add the Rx/Tx burst description field in queue information Haiyue Wang
2019-08-12 15:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-12 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 2/3] testpmd: show the Rx/Tx burst description field in queue Haiyue Wang
2019-08-12 14:15 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 3/3] net/ice: support the Rx/Tx burst description field in queue information Haiyue Wang
2019-08-12 14:27 ` David Marchand [this message]
2019-08-12 15:38   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v1 0/3] show the Rx/Tx burst description field Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-12 15:42     ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-12 15:54       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-12 16:00         ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-12 17:28           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-12 17:36             ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-12 15:39   ` Wang, Haiyue

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