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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Billy McFall <bmcfall@redhat.com>
Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] driver: vHost support to free consumed buffers
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:24:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161216082404.3377bfc6@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161216124851.2640-4-bmcfall@redhat.com>

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:48:51 -0500
Billy McFall <bmcfall@redhat.com> wrote:

> Add support to the vHostdriver for the new API to force free consumed
> buffers on TX ring. vHost does not cache the mbufs so there is no work
> to do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Billy McFall <bmcfall@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> index 766d4ef..6493d56 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
> @@ -939,6 +939,16 @@ eth_queue_release(void *q)
>  }
>  
>  static int
> +eth_tx_done_cleanup(void *txq __rte_unused, uint32_t free_cnt __rte_unused)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * vHost does not hang onto mbuf. eth_vhost_tx() copies packet data
> +	 * and releases mbuf, so nothing to cleanup.
> +	 */
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int
>  eth_link_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev __rte_unused,
>  		int wait_to_complete __rte_unused)
>  {
> @@ -979,6 +989,7 @@ static const struct eth_dev_ops ops = {
>  	.tx_queue_setup = eth_tx_queue_setup,
>  	.rx_queue_release = eth_queue_release,
>  	.tx_queue_release = eth_queue_release,
> +	.tx_done_cleanup = eth_tx_done_cleanup,
>  	.link_update = eth_link_update,
>  	.stats_get = eth_stats_get,
>  	.stats_reset = eth_stats_reset,

Rather than having to change every drive, why not make this the default
behavior?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-16 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-16 12:48 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] New API to free consumed buffers in TX ring Billy McFall
2016-12-16 12:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ethdev: " Billy McFall
2016-12-16 16:28   ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-20 11:27   ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-12-20 12:17     ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-12-20 12:58       ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-12-20 14:15         ` Billy McFall
2016-12-23  9:45           ` Adrien Mazarguil
2016-12-16 12:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] driver: e1000 igb support to free consumed buffers Billy McFall
2016-12-16 12:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] driver: vHost " Billy McFall
2016-12-16 16:24   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-01-11 19:54     ` Billy McFall

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