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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: David Harton <dharton@cisco.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: stop overriding rx_nombuf by rte_eth_stats_get
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:51:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1679481.0OI12NtS3X@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170823025555.19022-1-dharton@cisco.com>

23/08/2017 04:55, David Harton:
> rte_eth_stats_get() unconditonally would set rx_nombuf
> even if the device was setting the value.  A check has
> been added in rte_eth_stats_get() to leave the device
> value in-tact when non-zero.

If we get this counter from stats->rx_nombuf, why keeping
dev->data->rx_mbuf_alloc_failed ?
We could rework other PMDs to not use this global variable.
It is inconsistent to use it for some PMDs but not all.
And it seems not used outside of PMDs.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-23  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-23  1:19 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " David Harton
2017-08-23  2:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] " David Harton
2017-08-23  7:51   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-08-23 12:18     ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-08-23 13:24       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-23 21:27         ` David Harton (dharton)
2017-08-23 21:35           ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-23 21:56   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-23 22:19     ` David Harton (dharton)

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