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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
To: "Eads, Gage" <gage.eads@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	"Vangati, Narender" <narender.vangati@intel.com>,
	"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] [PATCH v2] libeventdev: event driven programming model framework for DPDK
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:48:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017041812.GA3543@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9184057F7FC11744A2107296B6B8EB1E01E179E0@FMSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 03:00:57PM +0000, Eads, Gage wrote:
> Thanks Jerin, this looks good. I've put a few notes/questions inline.

Thanks Gage.

> 
> >  +
> >  +/**
> >  + * Get the device identifier for the named event device.
> >  + *
> >  + * @param name
> >  + *   Event device name to select the event device identifier.
> >  + *
> >  + * @return
> >  + *   Returns event device identifier on success.
> >  + *   - <0: Failure to find named event device.
> >  + */
> >  +extern uint8_t
> >  +rte_event_dev_get_dev_id(const char *name);
> 
> This return type should be int8_t, or some signed type, to support the failure case.

Makes sense. I will change to int to make consistent with rte_cryptodev_get_dev_id()

> 
> >  +};
> >  +
> >  +/**
> >  + * Schedule one or more events in the event dev.
> >  + *
> >  + * An event dev implementation may define this is a NOOP, for instance if
> >  + * the event dev performs its scheduling in hardware.
> >  + *
> >  + * @param dev_id
> >  + *   The identifier of the device.
> >  + */
> >  +extern void
> >  +rte_event_schedule(uint8_t dev_id);
> 
> One idea: Have the function return the number of scheduled packets (or 0 for implementations that do scheduling in hardware). This could be a helpful diagnostic for the software scheduler.

How about returning an implementation specific value ?
Rather than defining certain function associated with returned value.
Just to  make sure it works with all HW/SW implementations. Something like below,

/**
 * Schedule one or more events in the event dev.
 *
 * An event dev implementation may define this is a NOOP, for instance if
 * the event dev performs its scheduling in hardware.
 *
 * @param dev_id
 *   The identifier of the device.
 * @return
 *   Implementation specific value from the event driver for diagnostic purpose
 */
extern int
rte_event_schedule(uint8_t dev_id);



 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-17  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04 21:49 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] " Vangati, Narender
2016-10-05  7:24 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-07 10:40   ` Hemant Agrawal
2016-10-09  8:27     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-11 19:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC] [PATCH v2] " Jerin Jacob
2016-10-14  4:14     ` Bill Fischofer
2016-10-14  9:26       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-14 10:30         ` Hemant Agrawal
2016-10-14 12:52           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-14 15:00     ` Eads, Gage
2016-10-17  4:18       ` Jerin Jacob [this message]
2016-10-17 20:26         ` Eads, Gage
2016-10-18 11:19           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-14 16:02     ` Bruce Richardson
2016-10-17  5:10       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-25 17:49     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-26 12:11       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-10-26 12:24         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-26 12:54           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-10-28  3:01             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-28  8:36               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-10-28  9:06                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02 11:25                   ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02 11:35                     ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-02 13:09                       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02 13:56                         ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-02 14:54                           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-26 18:37         ` Vincent Jardin
2016-10-28 13:10           ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-11-02 10:47         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02 11:45           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-02 12:34             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-26 12:43       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-10-26 17:30         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-28 13:48       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-10-28 14:16         ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-02  8:59           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02  8:06         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-02 11:48           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-02 12:57             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-10-14 15:00 Francois Ozog

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