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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, qiming.yang@intel.com, yidingx.zhou@intel.com,
	Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
	Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [POC v2] net/iavf: support no data path polling mode
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 08:45:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230720084503.5f27b0e8@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230720100815.440778-1-mingjinx.ye@intel.com>

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:08:14 +0000
Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com> wrote:

> Introduces a devargs "no-poll-on-link-down" in iavf PMD. When this
> flag is set, the PMD switches to no-poll mode when the link state is
> down (rx/tx burst returns to 0 immediately). When the link state
> returns to normal, PMD switches to normal rx/tx burst state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>

There is not enough explanation of this.
Why is this necessary?
Why is it unique to the iavf device and not true of other devices?
Where is the documentation?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-20  6:16 [PATCH] net/ice: CVL support double vlan Mingjin Ye
2023-05-06 10:04 ` [PATCH v2] net/ice: " Mingjin Ye
2023-05-26 10:16   ` Xu, Ke1
2023-05-26 11:10     ` Zhang, Qi Z
2023-07-17  9:36 ` [POC] net/iavf: support no data path polling mode Mingjin Ye
2023-07-20 10:08   ` [POC v2] " Mingjin Ye
2023-07-20 15:45     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-07-21  9:57     ` [POC v3] " Mingjin Ye
2023-08-11  6:27       ` [PATCH] " Mingjin Ye
2023-09-26  7:56         ` [PATCH v2] " Mingjin Ye
2023-10-13  1:27           ` [PATCH v3] " Mingjin Ye
2023-10-17  1:44             ` [PATCH v4] " Mingjin Ye
2023-10-17  2:19             ` Mingjin Ye
2023-10-19  9:04               ` [PATCH v5] net/iavf: data paths support no-polling mode Mingjin Ye
2023-10-20  0:39                 ` Zhang, Qi Z

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