Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] net/i40e: use the common Rx queue structure

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 01:54:30PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Make the i40e driver use the new common Rx queue structure.
> 
> Because the i40e driver supports both 16-byte and 32-byte descriptor
> formats (controlled by RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_16BYTE_RX_DESC define), the common
> queue structure has to take that into account, so the ring queue structure
> will have both, while the actual descriptor format is picked by i40e at
> compile time using the above macro. Direct usage of Rx queue structure is
> now meant to be replaced with a macro access that takes descriptor size
> into account.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/intel/common/rx.h                 |  14 ++
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c          |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h          |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_fdir.c            |  16 +--
>  .../i40e/i40e_recycle_mbufs_vec_common.c      |   6 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c            | 126 +++++++++---------
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.h            |  74 +++-------
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_common_avx.h |   6 +-
>  .../net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_altivec.c    |  22 +--
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx2.c   |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c |  12 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h |   4 +-
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_neon.c   |  24 ++--
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_sse.c    |  24 ++--
>  14 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/common/rx.h b/drivers/net/intel/common/rx.h
> index 524de39f9c..db49db57d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/common/rx.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/common/rx.h
> @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ struct ci_rx_queue {
>  	struct rte_mempool  *mp; /**< mbuf pool to populate RX ring. */
>  	union { /* RX ring virtual address */
>  		volatile union ixgbe_adv_rx_desc *ixgbe_rx_ring;
> +		volatile union i40e_16byte_rx_desc *i40e_rx_16b_ring;
> +		volatile union i40e_32byte_rx_desc *i40e_rx_32b_ring;

Rather than doing this, would it not be better to keep using the current
scheme of just having an #ifdef aliasing i40e_rx_desc to either the 16byte
or 32byte variants?

/Bruce