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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>, <jerinj@marvell.com>
Cc: <jerinj@marvell.com>, <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>,
	<abdullah.sevincer@intel.com>, <sachin.saxena@oss.nxp.com>,
	<hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>, <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	<pravin.pathak@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] eventdev: RFC clarify docs on event object fields
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 09:35:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zbtl04-qMlFN73WV@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240119174346.108905-12-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 05:43:46PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Clarify the meaning of the NEW, FORWARD and RELEASE event types.
> For the fields in "rte_event" struct, enhance the comments on each to
> clarify the field's use, and whether it is preserved between enqueue and
> dequeue, and it's role, if any, in scheduling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> As with the previous patch, please review this patch to ensure that the
> expected semantics of the various event types and event fields have not
> changed in an unexpected way.
> ---
>  lib/eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
<snip>

>  #define RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE            2
>  /**< Release the flow context associated with the schedule type.
>   *
> - * If current flow's scheduler type method is *RTE_SCHED_TYPE_ATOMIC*
> + * If current flow's scheduler type method is @ref RTE_SCHED_TYPE_ATOMIC
>   * then this function hints the scheduler that the user has completed critical
>   * section processing in the current atomic context.
>   * The scheduler is now allowed to schedule events from the same flow from
> @@ -1442,21 +1446,19 @@ struct rte_event_vector {
>   * performance, but the user needs to design carefully the split into critical
>   * vs non-critical sections.
>   *
> - * If current flow's scheduler type method is *RTE_SCHED_TYPE_ORDERED*
> - * then this function hints the scheduler that the user has done all that need
> - * to maintain event order in the current ordered context.
> - * The scheduler is allowed to release the ordered context of this port and
> - * avoid reordering any following enqueues.
> - *
> - * Early ordered context release may increase parallelism and thus system
> - * performance.

Before I do up a V3 of this patchset, I'd like to try and understand a bit
more what was meant by the original text for reordered here. The use of
"context" is very ambiguous, since it could refer to a number of different
things here.

For me, RELEASE for ordered queues should mean much the same as for atomic
queues - it means that the event being released is to be "dropped" from the
point of view of the eventdev scheduler - i.e. any atomic locks held for
that event should be released, and any reordering slots for it should be
skipped. However, the text above seems to imply that when we release one
event it means that we should stop reordering all subsequent events for
that port - which seems wrong to me. Especially in the case where
reordering may be done per flow, does one release mean that we need to go
through all flows and mark as skipped all reordered slots awaiting returned
events from that port? If this is what is intended, how is it better than
just doing another dequeue call from the port, which releases everything
automatically anyway?

Jerin, I believe you were the author of the original text, can you perhaps
clarify? Other PMD maintainers, can any of you chime in with current
supported behaviour when enqueuing a release of an ordered event?
Ideally, I'd like to see this simplified whereby release for ordered
behaves like that for atomic, and refers to the current event only, (and
drop any mention of contexts).

Thanks,
/Bruce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-02-01  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 123+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-18 13:45 [PATCH v1 0/7] improve eventdev API specification/documentation Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 1/7] eventdev: improve doxygen introduction text Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 2/7] eventdev: move text on driver internals to proper section Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 3/7] eventdev: update documentation on device capability flags Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 4/7] eventdev: cleanup doxygen comments on info structure Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:49   ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 5/7] eventdev: improve function documentation for query fns Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 6/7] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on configure struct Bruce Richardson
2024-01-18 13:45 ` [PATCH v1 7/7] eventdev: fix documentation for counting single-link ports Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] improve eventdev API specification/documentation Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 01/11] eventdev: improve doxygen introduction text Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  8:57     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-23  9:06       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-24 11:37         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-31 13:45       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 02/11] eventdev: move text on driver internals to proper section Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 03/11] eventdev: update documentation on device capability flags Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  9:18     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-23  9:34       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-31 14:09       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  8:58         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-02 11:20           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 04/11] eventdev: cleanup doxygen comments on info structure Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  9:35     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-23  9:43       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-24 11:51         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-31 14:37           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  9:24             ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-02 10:30               ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 05/11] eventdev: improve function documentation for query fns Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  9:40     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 06/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on configure struct Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  9:46     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-31 16:15       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 07/11] eventdev: fix documentation for counting single-link ports Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23  9:48     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-23  9:56       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-31 16:18         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 08/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on config fns Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23 10:00     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-23 10:07       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 09/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments for control APIs Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23 10:10     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 10/11] eventdev: RFC clarify comments on scheduling types Bruce Richardson
2024-01-23 16:19     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-01-24 11:21       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-31 17:54       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-01-19 17:43   ` [PATCH v2 11/11] eventdev: RFC clarify docs on event object fields Bruce Richardson
2024-01-24 11:34     ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-01 16:59       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  9:38         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-02 11:33           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:02             ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-01 17:02       ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  9:14         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  9:22         ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-02  9:36           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02  9:45         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-02 10:32           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-01  9:35     ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2024-02-01 15:00       ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-01 15:24         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-01 16:20           ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-02 12:39   ` [PATCH v3 00/11] improve eventdev API specification/documentation Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 01/11] eventdev: improve doxygen introduction text Bruce Richardson
2024-02-07 10:14       ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-08  9:50         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-09  8:43           ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-10  7:24             ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-20 16:28               ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-20 16:33         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 02/11] eventdev: move text on driver internals to proper section Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 03/11] eventdev: update documentation on device capability flags Bruce Richardson
2024-02-07 10:30       ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-20 16:42         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 04/11] eventdev: cleanup doxygen comments on info structure Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 05/11] eventdev: improve function documentation for query fns Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 06/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on configure struct Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 07/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on config fns Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 08/11] eventdev: improve doxygen comments for control APIs Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 09/11] eventdev: improve comments on scheduling types Bruce Richardson
2024-02-08  9:18       ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-08 10:04         ` Mattias Rönnblom
2024-02-20 17:23           ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 10/11] eventdev: clarify docs on event object fields and op types Bruce Richardson
2024-02-09  9:14       ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-20 17:39         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-21  9:31           ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-21 10:28             ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-20 17:50         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-20 18:03         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-02 12:39     ` [PATCH v3 11/11] eventdev: drop comment for anon union from doxygen Bruce Richardson
2024-02-21 10:32   ` [PATCH v4 00/12] improve eventdev API specification/documentation Bruce Richardson
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 01/12] eventdev: improve doxygen introduction text Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  4:51       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-26  9:59         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-29 16:13           ` Jerin Jacob
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 02/12] eventdev: move text on driver internals to proper section Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  5:01       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 03/12] eventdev: update documentation on device capability flags Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  5:07       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 04/12] eventdev: cleanup doxygen comments on info structure Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  5:18       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 05/12] eventdev: improve function documentation for query fns Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  5:18       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 06/12] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on configure struct Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:36       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 07/12] eventdev: improve doxygen comments on config fns Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:43       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-26  6:44         ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 08/12] eventdev: improve doxygen comments for control APIs Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:44       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 09/12] eventdev: improve comments on scheduling types Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:49       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 10/12] eventdev: clarify docs on event object fields and op types Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:52       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 11/12] eventdev: drop comment for anon union from doxygen Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:52       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-02-21 10:32     ` [PATCH v4 12/12] eventdev: fix doxygen processing of event vector struct Bruce Richardson
2024-02-26  6:53       ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-03-04 15:35       ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-03-04 15:49         ` Bruce Richardson
2024-02-23 12:36     ` [PATCH v4 00/12] improve eventdev API specification/documentation Jerin Jacob

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