From: "Lu, Wenzhuo" <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "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 06:14:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6A0DE07E22DDAD4C9103DF62FEBC090903488DD1@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160621035124.GC4903@localhost.localdomain>
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 ?
>
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-21 6:14 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 [this message]
2016-06-21 7:37 ` Jerin Jacob
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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