From: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>
To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: add queue start and stop feature
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 07:04:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR05MB670767BBA4C646A599B2CFB2C27B0@AM0PR05MB6707.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1595172937-21424-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 6:36 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/mlx5: add queue start and stop feature
>
> The mlx5 PMD did not support queue_start and queue_stop eth_dev API
> routines, queue could not be suspended and resumed during device
> operation.
>
> There is the use case when this feature is crucial for applications:
>
> - there is the secondary process handling the queue
> - secondary process crashed/aborted
> - some mbufs were allocated or used by secondary application
> - some mbufs were allocated by Rx queues to receive packets
> - some mbufs were placed to send queue
> - queue goes to undefined state
>
> In this case there was no reliable way to recovery queue handling
> by restarted secondary process but reset queue to initial state
> freeing all involved resources, including buffers involved in queue
> operations, reset the mbuf pools, and then reinitialize queue
> to working state:
>
> - reset mbuf pool, allocate all mbuf to initialize pool into
> safe state after the crush and allow safe mbuf free calls
> - stop queue, free all potentially involved mbufs
> - reset mbuf pool again
> - start queue, reallocate mbufs needed
>
> This patch introduces the queue start/stop feature with some
> limitations:
>
> - hairpin queues are not supported
> - it is application responsibility to synchronize start/stop
> with datapath routines, rx/tx_burst must be suspended during
> the queue_start/queue_stop calls
> - it is application responsibility to track queue usage and
> provide coordinated queue_start/queue_stop calls from
> secondary and primary processes.
> - Rx queues with vectorized Rx routine and engaged CQE
> compression are not supported by this patch currently
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> ---
>
> v2: - rebase
> - address comments for commit messages
>
>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 14:37 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2020-07-17 15:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-07-19 15:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2020-07-20 7:04 ` Raslan Darawsheh [this message]
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