From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"akhil.goyal@nxp.com" <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
"Jozwiak, TomaszX" <tomaszx.jozwiak@intel.com>,
"shally.verma@caviumnetworks.com"
<shally.verma@caviumnetworks.com>,
"ashish.gupta@caviumnetworks.com"
<ashish.gupta@caviumnetworks.com>,
"Daly, Lee" <lee.daly@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] compressdev: add feature flag to specify where processing is done
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:07:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181120100703.34c462e9@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <348A99DA5F5B7549AA880327E580B4358967C84F@IRSMSX101.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:25:25 +0000
"Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.trahe@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 6:54 PM
> > To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; akhil.goyal@nxp.com; Jozwiak, TomaszX <tomaszx.jozwiak@intel.com>;
> > shally.verma@caviumnetworks.com; ashish.gupta@caviumnetworks.com; Daly, Lee <lee.daly@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] compressdev: add feature flag to specify where processing is done
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:39:48 +0000
> > Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > A new device feature flag, RTE_COMPDEV_FF_SW_OP_DONE_IN_DEQUEUE
> > > is added. A PMD which processes operations using a software
> > > acceleration engine should set this if the bulk of the
> > > processing is done during the dequeue. It should leave it
> > > cleared if the bulk of the processing is done during the
> > > enqueue (default).
> > > An application may find this useful for tuning.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> >
> > What application? or is this "if we build it they will come?"
> [Fiona] Our storage team asked for this, so not quite.
> Seems like it might by generically useful, so a bit of the latter too :)
> Would you prefer I removed that line?
Hopefully, there would be one or more open source projects using the API.
I just did a survey of DPDK an 1/3 of it is never used by any open source
project. Hate to see more dead code and special cases created.
At least, some example code in examples would help. Something like a simple
in memory compressed storage server using a network API (SMB?/SSH?/FTP?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-20 1:39 Fiona Trahe
2018-11-20 1:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-11-20 16:25 ` Trahe, Fiona
2018-11-20 18:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-12-18 14:43 ` Trahe, Fiona
2018-12-19 5:47 ` Verma, Shally
2018-12-19 17:09 ` Trahe, Fiona
2019-01-10 18:46 ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2019-01-12 6:47 ` Verma, Shally
2019-01-16 11:21 ` Shally Verma
2019-01-16 11:36 ` Trahe, Fiona
2019-01-16 12:09 ` Shally Verma
2019-01-16 12:44 ` Trahe, Fiona
2019-01-16 13:47 ` Shally Verma
2018-11-20 5:17 ` Verma, Shally
2018-11-20 16:40 ` Trahe, Fiona
2019-01-17 17:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Fiona Trahe
2019-02-20 16:00 ` Shally Verma
2019-03-22 15:09 ` Akhil Goyal
2019-03-22 15:09 ` Akhil Goyal
2018-12-18 18:41 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Luse, Paul E
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