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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH DRAFT 1/2] ethdev: add buffered single pkt TX function to API
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:07:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140624160716.57f99bd2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403649136-23551-2-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:32:15 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> Many sample apps include internal buffering for single-packet-at-a-time
> operation. Since this is such a common paradigm, this functionality is
> better suited to being inside the core ethdev API.
> The new APIs include three functions:
> * rte_eth_tx_buffer - buffer up a single packet for future transmission
> * rte_eth_tx_buffer_flush - flush any unsent buffered packets
> * rte_eth_tx_buffer_set_err_callback - set up a callback to be called in
>   case transmitting a buffered burst fails. By default, we just free the
>   unsent packets

This must be per-queue to be MP safe.

Internally, we do something similar but it proved to be fastest to
user per-cpu data in some cases.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 22:32 [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH DRAFT 0/2] ethdev: Proposal to expand API for single-pkt-tx Bruce Richardson
2014-06-24 22:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH DRAFT 1/2] ethdev: add buffered single pkt TX function to API Bruce Richardson
2014-06-24 23:05   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-06-25  0:05     ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-06-24 23:07   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-06-25  0:02     ` Richardson, Bruce
2014-06-24 22:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH DRAFT 2/2] l2fwd: update l2fwd to use tx_buffer API Bruce Richardson

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