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From: "John Daley (johndale)" <johndale@cisco.com>
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Thread-Topic: Survey for final decision about per-port offload API
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Hi,
Inline.
Thanks,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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> <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>; Shijith Thotton
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> <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>; Rahul Lakkireddy
> <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>; John Daley (johndale) <johndale@cisco.com=
>;
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> <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>; Hemant Agrawal
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> <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>; Andrew Rybchenko
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> Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>; Allain Legacy
> <allain.legacy@windriver.com>; Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>;
> Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> Subject: Survey for final decision about per-port offload API
>=20
> There are some discussions about a specific part of the offload API:
> 	"To enable per-port offload, the offload should be set on both
> 	device configuration and queue setup."
>=20
> It means the application must repeat the port offload flags in
> rte_eth_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads and rte_eth_[rt]xconf.offloads, when call=
ing
> respectively rte_eth_dev_configure() and rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup for ea=
ch
> queue.
>=20
> The PMD must check if there is mismatch, i.e. a port offload not repeated=
 in
> queue setup.
> There is a proposal to do this check at ethdev level:
> 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/094023.html
>=20
> It was also proposed to relax the API and allow "forgetting" port offload=
s in
> queue offloads:
> 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/092978.html
>=20
> It would mean the offloads applied to a queue result of OR operation:
> 	rte_eth_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads | rte_eth_[rt]xconf.offloads
>=20
> 1/ Do you agree with above API change?

YES

>=20
>=20
> If we agree with this change, we need to update the documentation and rem=
ove
> the checks in PMDs.
> Note: no matter what is decided here, 18.05-rc1 should have all PMDs swit=
ched
> to the API which was defined in 17.11.
> Given that API is new and not yet adopted by the applications, the sonner=
 it is
> fixed, the better.
>=20
> 2/ Should we do this change in 18.05-rc2?
>=20
>=20
YES

> At the same time, we want to make clear that an offload enabled at port l=
evel,
> cannot be disabled at queue level.
>=20
> 3/ Do you agree with above statement (to be added in the doc)?

YES

>=20
>=20
> There is the same kind of confusion in the offload capabilities:
> 	rte_eth_dev_info.[rt]x_offload_capa
> 	rte_eth_dev_info.[rt]x_queue_offload_capa
> The queue capabilities must be a subset of port capabilities, i.e. every =
queue
> capabilities must be reported as port capabilities.
> But the port capabilities should be reported at queue level only if it ca=
n be
> applied to a specific queue.
>=20
> 4/ Do you agree with above statement (to be added in the doc)?

YES
>=20
>=20
> Please give your opinion on questions 1, 2, 3 and 4.
> Answering by yes/no may be sufficient in most cases :) Thank you
>=20