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From: "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Eads, Gage" <gage.eads@intel.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
	"hemant.agrawal@nxp.com" <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	"Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>,
	"McDaniel, Timothy" <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:36:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B035B8EBB9@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9184057F7FC11744A2107296B6B8EB1E01E5EF2C@FMSMSX108.amr.corp.intel.com>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eads, Gage
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 4:32 PM
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; Van Haaren, Harry
> <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>; McDaniel, Timothy
> <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
> programming model
> 
> Hi Jerin,
> 
> See the bottom of this email for a proposed tweak to the
> rte_event_enqueue_burst() return value.
> 
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> >  Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 3:25 AM
> >  To: dev@dpdk.org
> >  Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; Richardson, Bruce
> > <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; hemant.agrawal@nxp.com; Eads, Gage
> > <gage.eads@intel.com>; Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>;
> > Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> >  Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
> > programming model
> >
<message truncated for brevity>
> >  +/**
> >  + * Enqueue a burst of events objects or an event object supplied in
> >  *rte_event*
> >  + * structure on an  event device designated by its *dev_id* through
> > the event  + * port specified by *port_id*. Each event object
> > specifies the event queue on  + * which it will be enqueued.
> >  + *
> >  + * The *nb_events* parameter is the number of event objects to
> > enqueue  which are  + * supplied in the *ev* array of *rte_event*
> > structure.
> >  + *
> >  + * The rte_event_enqueue_burst() function returns the number of  + *
> > events objects it actually enqueued. A return value equal to
> > *nb_events*  + * means that all event objects have been enqueued.
> >  + *
> >  + * @param dev_id
> >  + *   The identifier of the device.
> >  + * @param port_id
> >  + *   The identifier of the event port.
> >  + * @param ev
> >  + *   Points to an array of *nb_events* objects of type *rte_event*
> structure
> >  + *   which contain the event object enqueue operations to be
> processed.
> >  + * @param nb_events
> >  + *   The number of event objects to enqueue, typically number of
> >  + *   rte_event_port_enqueue_depth() available for this port.
> >  + *
> >  + * @return
> >  + *   The number of event objects actually enqueued on the event
> device. The
> >  + *   return value can be less than the value of the *nb_events*
> parameter
> >  when
> >  + *   the event devices queue is full or if invalid parameters are
> specified in a
> >  + *   *rte_event*. If return value is less than *nb_events*, the
> remaining events
> >  + *   at the end of ev[] are not consumed,and the caller has to take
> care of
> >  them
> >  + *
> >  + * @see rte_event_port_enqueue_depth()  + */  +uint16_t
> > +rte_event_enqueue_burst(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id,
> >  +			const struct rte_event ev[], uint16_t nb_events);
> 
> There are a number of reasons this operation could fail to enqueue all the
> events, including:
> - Backpressure
> - Invalid port ID
> - Invalid queue ID
> - Invalid sched type when a queue is configured for ATOMIC_ONLY,
> ORDERED_ONLY, or PARALLEL_ONLY
> - ...
> 
> The current API doesn't provide a straightforward way to determine the
> cause of a failure. This is a particular issue on event PMDs that can
> backpressure, where the app may want to treat that case differently than
> the other failure cases.
> 
> Could we change the return type to int16_t, and define a set of error
> cases (e.g. -ENOSPC for backpressure, -EINVAL for an invalid argument)?
> (With corresponding changes needed in the PMD API) Similarly we could
> change rte_event_dequeue_burst() to return an int16_t, with -EINVAL as a
> possible error case.

Use rte_errno instead, I suggest. That's what it's there for.

/Bruce

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-25 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-18  5:44 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Jerin Jacob
2016-11-18  5:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model Jerin Jacob
2016-11-23 18:39   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-24  1:59     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-24 12:26       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-24 15:35       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-25  0:23         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-25 11:00           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-25 13:09             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-26  0:57               ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-28  9:10                 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-26  2:54             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-28  9:16               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-28 11:30                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-29  4:01                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-29 10:00                   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-25 11:59           ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-11-25 12:09             ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-11-24 16:24   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-24 19:30     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06 16:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-07 18:53         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-08  9:30           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-08 20:41             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-09 15:11               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-14  6:55                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-07 10:57       ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-12-08  1:24         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-08 11:02           ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-12-14 13:13             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-14 15:15               ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-15 16:54               ` Van Haaren, Harry
2016-12-07 11:12       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-08  1:48         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-08  9:57           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-14  6:40             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-14 15:19       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-15 13:39         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] eventdev: define southbound driver interface Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] eventdev: implement the northbound APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06 17:17       ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-07 17:02         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-08  9:59           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-12-14  6:28             ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] eventdev: implement PMD registration functions Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] event/skeleton: add skeleton eventdev driver Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06  3:52     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] app/test: unit test case for eventdev APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-12-06 16:46     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Bruce Richardson
2016-12-21  9:25     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " Jerin Jacob
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model Jerin Jacob
2017-01-25 16:32         ` Eads, Gage
2017-01-25 16:36           ` Richardson, Bruce [this message]
2017-01-25 16:53             ` Eads, Gage
2017-01-25 22:36               ` Eads, Gage
2017-01-26  9:39                 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-01-26 20:39                   ` Eads, Gage
2017-01-27 10:03                     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-01-30 10:42                     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-02-02 11:18         ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-02 14:09           ` Jerin Jacob
2017-02-03  6:38             ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-03 10:58               ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-02-07  4:59                 ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] eventdev: define southbound driver interface Jerin Jacob
2017-02-02 11:19         ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-02 11:34           ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-02 12:53             ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-02 13:58               ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-03  5:59                 ` Nipun Gupta
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] eventdev: implement the northbound APIs Jerin Jacob
2017-02-02 11:19         ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-02 14:32           ` Jerin Jacob
2017-02-03  6:59             ` Nipun Gupta
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/6] eventdev: implement PMD registration functions Jerin Jacob
2017-02-02 11:20         ` Nipun Gupta
2017-02-05 13:04           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] event/skeleton: add skeleton eventdev driver Jerin Jacob
2016-12-21  9:25       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/6] app/test: unit test case for eventdev APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-11-18  5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] eventdev: implement the northbound APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-11-21 17:45   ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-21 19:13     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-21 19:31       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-22 15:15         ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-22 18:19           ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-22 19:43             ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-22 20:00               ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-22 22:48                 ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-22 23:43                   ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-28 15:53                     ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-29  2:01                       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-29  3:43                       ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-29  5:46                         ` Eads, Gage
2016-11-23  9:57           ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-23 19:18   ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-25  4:17     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-25  9:55       ` Richardson, Bruce
2016-11-25 23:08         ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-18  5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] event/skeleton: add skeleton eventdev driver Jerin Jacob
2016-11-18  5:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] app/test: unit test case for eventdev APIs Jerin Jacob
2016-11-18 15:25 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] libeventdev API and northbound implementation Bruce Richardson
2016-11-18 16:04   ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-18 19:27     ` Jerin Jacob
2016-11-21  9:40       ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-21  9:57         ` Bruce Richardson
2016-11-22  0:11           ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-11-22  2:00       ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-22  9:05         ` Shreyansh Jain

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