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From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/4] ethdev: add helpers to move to the new offloads API
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:30:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <VI1PR05MB314917B19B5E513DB7BB8F6BC39C0@VI1PR05MB3149.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79b9a132-9cf3-21cf-19d0-56291917a9d7@intel.com>

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 3:55 PM, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> Considering the re-configuration is risky, and without other ideas I will
> need to fall back to the error flow case.
> >> Are we OK with that?
> >
> > I think we can take the risk of keeping this call to
> > rte_eth_dev_configure() in the middle of rte_eth_rx_queue_setup().
> > In theory it should be acceptable.
> > If we merge it soon, it can be better tested with every drivers.
> 
> I doubt about taking that risk. Some driver does HW configuration via
> configure() and combination of start/stop, setup_queue and configure can
> be complex.
> 
> I am for generating error for this case.
> 
> Generating error also can be good motivation for PMDs to adapt new
> method.

Adding Ananyev suggestion from other thread:
For tx_prepare() work, we used the following approach:
1. submitted patch with changes in rte_ethdev and PMDs we  are familiar with (Intel ones).
    For other PMDs - patch contained just minimal changes to make it build cleanly.
2. Asked other PMD maintainers to review rte_ethdev changes and provide a proper patch
    for the PMD they own.

So I am OK with both suggestions. Meaning:
1. Define the case were application use the new offloads API with PMD which supports the old one as an error.
2. apply patches to ethdev with the above behavior.

Just to emphasize, it means that PMDs which won't move to the new API by the end of 17.11 will not be able to run with any of the examples and application on DPDK tree (and also with other applications which moved to the new API), as I plan to submit patches which convert them all to the new API.

Any objection to this approach? 



  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-30  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-07 10:54 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] ethdev " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/4] ethdev: rename Rx and Tx configuration structs Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 21:39   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 2/4] ethdev: introduce Rx queue offloads API Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 12:21   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23 13:06     ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 21:48   ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-29 12:50   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30  6:22     ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-29 13:11   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 3/4] ethdev: introduce Tx " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-07 10:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 4/4] ethdev: add helpers to move to the new " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 12:28   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23 13:13     ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 22:06       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-24  7:12         ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-25 13:26           ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-29 12:55             ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30  6:30               ` Shahaf Shuler [this message]
2017-08-30  7:50                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 10:16                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-30 12:42                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-08-30 13:25                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-30 14:15                       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-28 14:12       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-29  6:26         ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-29  9:43           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-08-23  6:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/4] ethdev " Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-23 22:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-08-25 10:31 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-08-27  6:05   ` Shahaf Shuler
2017-08-28  5:00     ` Jerin Jacob
2017-08-28 10:57       ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-09-05  7:07         ` Jerin Jacob

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