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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Hyong Youb Kim <hyonkim@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, John Daley <johndale@cisco.com>,
	Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/enic: add private API to set ingress VLAN rewrite mode
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:36:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <155267265.tCld3OmuaL@xps> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190313203607.GRv6BimTk8HRitu0U1MqVqjsfWrtLYLPZez1KXc7FnE@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <399e1eeb-3c3f-ac73-03e9-2e37b2d8ef52@intel.com>

13/03/2019 19:32, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 3/5/2019 7:11 AM, Hyong Youb Kim wrote:
> > The driver currently has a devarg to set the rewrite mode during
> > init. Some apps want to programatically set it after running
> > rte_eal_init() and finding that ports are VIC. Add a private function
> > to support such applications.
> 
> It is not good idea to have PMD specific APIs (although we already have some).
> 
> Specific to this case, as far as I can see it is to pass a config value and do
> the action related to it, what would you think having a generic key/value
> set/get API in ethdev for this? Similar to rawdev get_attr/set_attr [1]?
> 
> My concern is it may turn into something like ioctl with many things pushed to
> it, and cause possible duplication ...

Yes, it is clearly ioctl style.

Please could you explain more what is the rewrite mode?
Does it apply to the port or the queue?



  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-13 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-05  5:56 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Hyong Youb Kim
2019-03-05  7:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Hyong Youb Kim
2019-03-13 18:32   ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-13 20:36     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-03-13 20:36       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-13 21:11       ` John Daley (johndale)
2019-03-13 21:11         ` John Daley (johndale)
2019-03-13 21:29         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-13 21:29           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-14  2:58           ` Hyong Youb Kim
2019-03-14  2:58             ` Hyong Youb Kim
2019-03-14 22:04             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-14 22:04               ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-19 17:29               ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 17:29                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 17:36                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-19 17:36                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-19 18:00                   ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 18:00                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-19 20:30                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-19 20:30                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-20 10:45                       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-20 10:45                         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-20 11:46                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-20 11:46                           ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-03-25 11:49                           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-25 11:49                             ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-03-25 13:26                             ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-03-25 13:26                               ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-03-25 13:33                               ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-03-25 13:33                                 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-03-26  6:39                                 ` Hyong Youb Kim
2019-03-26  6:39                                   ` Hyong Youb Kim

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