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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali@marvell.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.v.ananyev@yandex.ru>,
	Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>,
	"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: common packet group functionality
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:04:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3456222.nHSHbJBgIm@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO6PR18MB384468A4D7795A1C892EA3A6B8BE9@CO6PR18MB3844.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>

04/07/2022 14:49, Rahul Bhansali:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > 23/06/2022 11:38, Rahul Bhansali:
> > > This will make the packet grouping function common, so that other
> > > examples can utilize as per need.
> > >
> > > For each architecture sse/neon/altivec, port group headers will be
> > > created under examples/common/<arch>.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Rahul Bhansali <rbhansali@marvell.com>
> > > ---
> > > Changes in v3: Created common port-group headers for architectures
> > > sse/neon/altivec as suggested by Konstantin.
> > >
> > > Changes in v2: New patch to address review comment.
> > >
> > >  examples/common/altivec/port_group.h |  48 +++++++++
> > >  examples/common/neon/port_group.h    |  50 ++++++++++
> > >  examples/common/pkt_group.h          | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  examples/common/sse/port_group.h     |  47 +++++++++
> > >  examples/l3fwd/Makefile              |   5 +-
> > >  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h               |   2 -
> > >  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_altivec.h       |  37 +------
> > >  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_common.h        | 129 +------------------------
> > >  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_neon.h          |  39 +-------
> > >  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_sse.h           |  36 +------
> > >  examples/meson.build                 |   2 +-
> > 
> > OK you move code from l3fwd to another place.
> > That's probably a step in the right direction.
> > What about taking the extra step of making it an EAL API?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. These changes are specific to fast path and I think EAL is more focused towards control path (Correct me if I am wrong).

No, EAL is just a set of basic functions.
Locks, time counters, bit ops are examples of EAL functions
which can be used in data path.

> Instead of EAL API, we can have it in library, but currently these are very few changes to form a library.
> Later in future if we can identify more such common APIs then we can form a library around these specific things, so that more examples/app/library can use it.
> Please suggest if this makes sense.

These are just computations, it can be a file in EAL.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-04 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-24  9:57 [PATCH] examples/ipsec-secgw: add support of NEON with poll mode Rahul Bhansali
2022-05-24 23:00 ` Konstantin Ananyev
2022-05-25 11:03   ` [EXT] " Rahul Bhansali
2022-05-27 11:44     ` Konstantin Ananyev
2022-06-17  7:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] examples/l3fwd: common packet group functionality Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-17  7:42   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] examples/ipsec-secgw: add support of NEON with poll mode Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-17  7:51     ` Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-21 12:55     ` Akhil Goyal
2022-06-23  8:46     ` Zhang, Roy Fan
2022-06-23  9:37       ` Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-17  7:50   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] examples/l3fwd: common packet group functionality Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-20 23:13     ` Konstantin Ananyev
2022-06-21 16:50       ` [EXT] " Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-22 23:25         ` Konstantin Ananyev
2022-06-20  7:49   ` [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2022-06-20 10:45     ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-06-21 12:56     ` Akhil Goyal
2022-06-23  9:38 ` [PATCH v3 " Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-23  9:38   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] examples/ipsec-secgw: add support of NEON with poll mode Rahul Bhansali
2022-06-26 19:00   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: common packet group functionality Konstantin Ananyev
2022-06-28  8:54     ` [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2022-07-03 21:40   ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-04 12:49     ` [EXT] " Rahul Bhansali
2022-07-04 14:04       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2022-07-04 14:48   ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-07-05 16:11     ` [EXT] " Rahul Bhansali

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