Hi Bruce,

On 23/10/2024 17:55, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> The DDP package file being loaded at init time may contain an
> alternative Tx Scheduler topology in it. Add driver option to load this
> topology at init time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson<bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
>   doc/guides/nics/ice.rst        | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/ice/base/ice_ddp.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
>   drivers/net/ice/base/ice_ddp.h |  4 ++--
>   drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.c   | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
>   drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h   |  1 +
>   5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
<snip>
> @@ -2030,19 +2032,18 @@ static int
>   parse_bool(const char *key, const char *value, void *args)
>   {
>   	int *i = (int *)args;
> -	char *end;
> -	int num;
>   
> -	num = strtoul(value, &end, 10);
> -
> -	if (num != 0 && num != 1) {
> -		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING, "invalid value:\"%s\" for key:\"%s\", "
> -			"value must be 0 or 1",
> +	if (value == NULL || value[0] == '\0') {
> +		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING, "key:\"%s\", requires a value, which must be 0 or 1", key);
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +	if (value[1] != '\0' || (value[0] != '0' && value[0] != '1')) {
> +		PMD_DRV_LOG(WARNING, "invalid value:\"%s\" for key:\"%s\", value must be 0 or 1",
>   			value, key);
>   		return -1;
>   	}
>   
> -	*i = num;
> +	*i = value[0] - '0';

Ithinkthatinsteadof usingchararithmetic,it wouldbe better to:

*i = !(value[0] == '0')

>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> @@ -2307,6 +2308,10 @@ static int ice_parse_devargs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>   	if (ret)
>   		goto bail;
>   
> +	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG,
> +				 &parse_bool, &ad->devargs.ddp_load_sched);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto bail;
>   bail:
>   	rte_kvargs_free(kvlist);
>   	return ret;
> @@ -7185,6 +7190,7 @@ RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING(net_ice,
>   			      ICE_SAFE_MODE_SUPPORT_ARG "=<0|1>"
>   			      ICE_DEFAULT_MAC_DISABLE "=<0|1>"
>   			      ICE_DDP_FILENAME_ARG "=</path/to/file>"
> +			      ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG "=<0|1>"
>   			      ICE_RX_LOW_LATENCY_ARG "=<0|1>");
>   
>   RTE_LOG_REGISTER_SUFFIX(ice_logtype_init, init, NOTICE);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
> index 076cf595e8..2794a76096 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/ice/ice_ethdev.h
> @@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ struct ice_devargs {
>   	uint8_t proto_xtr[ICE_MAX_QUEUE_NUM];
>   	uint8_t pin_idx;
>   	uint8_t pps_out_ena;
> +	uint8_t ddp_load_sched;
>   	int xtr_field_offs;
>   	uint8_t xtr_flag_offs[PROTO_XTR_MAX];
>   	/* Name of the field. */

-- 
Regards,
Vladimir