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From: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	 rasland@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add field for device data per process
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:17:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD+H992M50_DC4vQapL9uxwNrrR1Ah=289HYWbDBpN70=KskRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e62c6c8-0650-b1f9-6a98-d70f5f3a944b@intel.com>

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 2:01 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 10/3/2018 9:44 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > + Cc more people
> >
> > 27/09/2018 13:26, Alejandro Lucero:
> >> Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With
> >> current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process.
> >> This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP
> >> PMD with multiprocess support.
> >>
> >> There is also at least another PMD driver, tap, with similar
> >> requirements for per-process device data.
> >
> > Yes, it is required to fix tap PMD for multi-process usage.
> >
> > I am in favor of accepting this change in 18.11.
> >
> > [...]
> >> @@ -539,7 +539,13 @@ struct rte_eth_dev {
> >>      eth_rx_burst_t rx_pkt_burst; /**< Pointer to PMD receive function.
> */
> >>      eth_tx_burst_t tx_pkt_burst; /**< Pointer to PMD transmit
> function. */
> >>      eth_tx_prep_t tx_pkt_prepare; /**< Pointer to PMD transmit prepare
> function. */
> >> -    struct rte_eth_dev_data *data;  /**< Pointer to device data */
> >> +    /**
> >> +     * Next two fields are per-device data but *data is shared between
> >
> > All fields in rte_eth_dev are per-device.
> >
> >> +     * primary and secondary processes and *process_private is
> per-process
> >> +     * private.
> >> +     */
> >> +    struct rte_eth_dev_data *data;  /**< Pointer to device data. */
> >> +    void *process_private; /**< Pointer to per-process device data. */
> >
> > We could explain here that this memory is allocated by the PMD.
>
> Will there be new version?
>
> Are we agree on name?
>
> Is LIBABIVER increase should be done in this patch, or will there be other
> patch
> already doing it?
>

I'm not familiar with LIBABIVER but just tell me to send it again with that
change if you consider that is the right thing to do.
About the name, I will let other to tell.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-05 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-27 11:26 Alejandro Lucero
2018-10-03 20:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-04 11:31   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 13:01   ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 13:17     ` Alejandro Lucero [this message]
2018-10-05 13:26       ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 14:47         ` Thomas Monjalon

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