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From: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>
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Thank Stephen,
but in which the scenarios, it should wait link to up, in which
scenarios, it should not ?
By the way, how to define the "wait" time value ?


在 2021/1/19 10:26, Stephen Hemminger 写道:
> On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:06:48 +0800
> "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Bruce and all,
>> 	Do you know the difference between "rte_eth_link_get" and
>> "rte_eth_link_get_nowait"? I know they call funciton "link_update"
>> with differenct parameter "wait_to_complete"(set 1 means wait, set 0
>>    means not wait). But how to define the "wait" time, and why it shoud wait?
>> 	On the further, What are the application scenarios of the two
>> APIs?
>>
> 
> The default behavior of rte_eth_link_get (in some drivers) is to wait
> for link to come up.  Many drivers don't do this. It seems mostly the
> Intel ones that do.
> .
>