From: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
"bruce.richardson@intel.com" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"gage.eads@intel.com" <gage.eads@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
"harry.van.haaren@intel.com" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven programming model
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 06:38:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM5PR0401MB251413624FE174706A836175E64F0@AM5PR0401MB2514.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 19:39
> To: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@nxp.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; thomas.monjalon@6wind.com;
> bruce.richardson@intel.com; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>;
> gage.eads@intel.com; harry.van.haaren@intel.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
> programming model
>
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:18:52AM +0000, Nipun Gupta wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had a few queries/comments regarding the eventdev patches.
> >
> > Please see inline.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jerin Jacob
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 14:55
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; bruce.richardson@intel.com; Hemant
> > > Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; gage.eads@intel.com;
> > > harry.van.haaren@intel.com; Jerin Jacob
> <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] eventdev: introduce event driven
> > > programming model
> > >
> > > In a polling model, lcores poll ethdev ports and associated
> > > rx queues directly to look for packet. In an event driven model,
> > > by contrast, lcores call the scheduler that selects packets for
> > > them based on programmer-specified criteria. Eventdev library
> > > adds support for event driven programming model, which offer
> > > applications automatic multicore scaling, dynamic load balancing,
> > > pipelining, packet ingress order maintenance and
> > > synchronization services to simplify application packet processing.
> > >
> > > By introducing event driven programming model, DPDK can support
> > > both polling and event driven programming models for packet processing,
> > > and applications are free to choose whatever model
> > > (or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.
> > >
> > > This patch adds the eventdev specification header file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > MAINTAINERS | 3 +
> > > doc/api/doxy-api-index.md | 1 +
> > > doc/api/doxy-api.conf | 1 +
> > > lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 1275
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 4 files changed, 1280 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > +
> > > +/**
> > > + * Event device information
> > > + */
> > > +struct rte_event_dev_info {
> > > + const char *driver_name; /**< Event driver name */
> > > + struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev; /**< PCI information */
> >
> > With 'rte_device' in place (rte_dev.h), should we not have 'rte_device' instead
> of 'rte_pci_device' here?
>
> Yes. Please post a patch to fix this. As the time of merging to
> next-eventdev tree it was not the case.
Sure. I'll send a patch regarding this.
>
> >
> > > + * The number of events dequeued is the number of scheduler contexts held
> by
> > > + * this port. These contexts are automatically released in the next
> > > + * rte_event_dequeue_burst() invocation, or invoking
> > > rte_event_enqueue_burst()
> > > + * with RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE operation can be used to release the
> > > + * contexts early.
> > > + *
> > > + * @param dev_id
> > > + * The identifier of the device.
> > > + * @param port_id
> > > + * The identifier of the event port.
> > > + * @param[out] ev
> > > + * Points to an array of *nb_events* objects of type *rte_event* structure
> > > + * for output to be populated with the dequeued event objects.
> > > + * @param nb_events
> > > + * The maximum number of event objects to dequeue, typically number of
> > > + * rte_event_port_dequeue_depth() available for this port.
> > > + *
> > > + * @param timeout_ticks
> > > + * - 0 no-wait, returns immediately if there is no event.
> > > + * - >0 wait for the event, if the device is configured with
> > > + * RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT then this function will
> > > wait until
> > > + * the event available or *timeout_ticks* time.
> >
> > Just for understanding - Is expectation that rte_event_dequeue_burst() will
> wait till timeout
> > unless requested number of events (nb_events) are not received on the event
> port?
>
> Yes. If you need any change then a send RFC patch for the header file
> change.
>
> >
> > > + * if the device is not configured with
> > > RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT
> > > + * then this function will wait until the event available or
> > > + * *dequeue_timeout_ns* ns which was previously supplied to
> > > + * rte_event_dev_configure()
> > > + *
> > > + * @return
> > > + * The number of event objects actually dequeued from the port. The return
> > > + * value can be less than the value of the *nb_events* parameter when the
> > > + * event port's queue is not full.
> > > + *
> > > + * @see rte_event_port_dequeue_depth()
> > > + */
> > > +uint16_t
> > > +rte_event_dequeue_burst(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id, struct rte_event
> > > ev[],
> > > + uint16_t nb_events, uint64_t timeout_ticks);
> > > +
> >
> > <Snip>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nipun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-03 6:38 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
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 [this message]
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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