From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
To: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Chen, Jing D" <jing.d.chen@intel.com>,
"Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
"Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>,
"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/4] lib/librte_ether: support device reset
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:07:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160621073710.GA30638@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A0DE07E22DDAD4C9103DF62FEBC090903488DD1@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 06:14:29AM +0000, Lu, Wenzhuo wrote:
> Hi Jerin, Stephen,
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 11:51 AM
> > To: Stephen Hemminger
> > Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo; dev@dpdk.org; Ananyev, Konstantin; Richardson, Bruce; Chen,
> > Jing D; Liang, Cunming; Wu, Jingjing; Zhang, Helin;
> > thomas.monjalon@6wind.com
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/4] lib/librte_ether: support device reset
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 09:17:14AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 14:44:11 +0530
> > > Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 02:24:27PM +0800, Wenzhuo Lu wrote:
> > > > > Add an API to reset the device.
> > > > > It's for VF device in this scenario, kernel PF + DPDK VF.
> > > > > When the PF port down->up, APP should call this API to reset VF
> > > > > port. Most likely, APP should call it in its management thread and
> > > > > guarantee the thread safe. It means APP should stop the rx/tx and
> > > > > the device, then reset the device, then recover the device and
> > > > > rx/tx.
> > > >
> > > > Following is _a_ use-case for Device reset. But may be not be _the_
> > > > use case. IMO, We need to first say expected behavior of this API
> > > > and add a use-case later.
> > > >
> > > > Other use-case would be, PCIe VF with functional level reset for
> > > > SRIOV migration.
> > > > Are we on same page?
> > >
> > >
> > > In my experience with Linux devices, this is normally handled by the
> > > device driver in the start routine. Since any use case which needs
> > > this is going to do a stop/reset/start sequence, why not just have the
> > > VF device driver do this in the start routine?.
> > >
> > > Adding yet another API and state transistion if not necessary
> > > increases the complexity and required test cases for all devices.
> >
> > I agree with Stephen here.I think if application needs to call start after the
> > device reset then we could add this logic in start itself rather exposing a yet
> > another API
> Do you mean changing the device_start to include all these actions, stop device -> stop queue -> re-setup queue -> start queue -> start device ?
What was the expected API call sequence when you were introduced this API?
Point was to have implicit device reset in the API call
sequence(Wherever make sense for specific PMD)
Jerin
>
> >
> > >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 5:40 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/8] support reset of VF link Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] lib/librte_ether: support device reset Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/8] lib/librte_ether: defind RX/TX lock mode Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-08 2:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-06-08 7:34 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-09 7:50 ` Olivier Matz
2016-06-12 5:25 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-10 18:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-06-12 5:27 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/8] ixgbe: RX/TX with lock on VF Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/8] ixgbe: implement device reset " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/8] igb: RX/TX with lock " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/8] igb: implement device reset " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/8] i40e:RX/TX with lock " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-06 5:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 8/8] i40e: implement device reset " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-15 3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/4] support reset of VF link Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-15 3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/4] lib/librte_ether: support device reset Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-16 15:31 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-06-16 15:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-15 3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/4] ixgbe: implement device reset on VF Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-15 3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/4] igb: " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-15 3:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/4] i40e: " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-20 6:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/4] support reset of VF link Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-20 6:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/4] lib/librte_ether: support device reset Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-20 9:14 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-20 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-06-21 3:51 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 6:14 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-21 7:37 ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2016-06-21 8:24 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-21 8:55 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 9:26 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21 10:57 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 13:10 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21 13:30 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-21 14:03 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-06-21 14:29 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 1:35 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-22 2:37 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 3:32 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-22 4:14 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 5:05 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-22 6:10 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 6:42 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-22 7:59 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-22 8:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-22 8:25 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-22 9:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-22 11:06 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-06-23 0:45 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-23 0:39 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-21 0:51 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-06-20 6:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/4] ixgbe: implement device reset on VF Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-20 6:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/4] igb: " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-06-20 6:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/4] i40e: " Wenzhuo Lu
2016-07-04 15:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/4] support reset of VF link Luca Boccassi
2016-07-05 0:52 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-05 9:52 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-06 0:45 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-06 16:26 ` Luca Boccassi
[not found] ` <1467822182.32466.34.camel@brocade.com>
2016-07-07 1:09 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-07 10:20 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-07 13:12 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-07 16:19 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-08 0:14 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-08 17:15 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-11 1:32 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-07-11 12:02 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-11 15:43 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-07-12 1:19 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2016-08-26 12:58 ` Luca Boccassi
2016-08-29 1:04 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
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