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From: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>,
	Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@mellanox.com>,
	 Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"jerinjacobk@gmail.com" <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>,
	"stephen@networkplumber.org" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	"ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com" <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>,
	"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	"olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce changes to ethdev rxconf structure
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 16:39:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM4PR05MB3265A12E447C5229B40857A6D2480@AM4PR05MB3265.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e555836-cd8d-9b06-f348-f1a0e2d77dbb@intel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 19:37
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; Andrew Rybchenko
> <arybchenko@solarflare.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> jerinjacobk@gmail.com; stephen@networkplumber.org;
> ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com;
> olivier.matz@6wind.com; david.marchand@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce changes to ethdev rxconf structure
> 
> On 8/6/2020 5:29 PM, Slava Ovsiienko wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 19:16
> >> To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> >> <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> >> Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Raslan Darawsheh
> >> <rasland@mellanox.com>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>;
> >> jerinjacobk@gmail.com; stephen@networkplumber.org;
> >> ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com;
> >> olivier.matz@6wind.com; david.marchand@redhat.com
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce changes to ethdev rxconf structure
> >>
> >> On 8/3/2020 3:31 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> >>> On 8/3/20 1:58 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko wrote:
> >>>> The DPDK datapath in the transmit direction is very flexible.
> >>>> The applications can build multisegment packets and manages almost
> >>>> all data aspects - the memory pools where segments are allocated
> >>>> from, the segment lengths, the memory attributes like external,
> >>>> registered, etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the receiving direction, the datapath is much less flexible, the
> >>>> applications can only specify the memory pool to configure the
> >>>> receiving queue and nothing more. In order to extend the receiving
> >>>> datapath capabilities it is proposed to add the new fields into
> >>>> rte_eth_rxconf structure:
> >>>>
> >>>> struct rte_eth_rxconf {
> >>>>     ...
> >>>>     uint16_t rx_split_num; /* number of segments to split */
> >>>>     uint16_t *rx_split_len; /* array of segment lengthes */
> >>>>     struct rte_mempool **mp; /* array of segment memory pools */
> >>>>     ...
> >>>> };
> >>>>
> >>>> The non-zero value of rx_split_num field configures the receiving
> >>>> queue to split ingress packets into multiple segments to the mbufs
> >>>> allocated from various memory pools according to the specified
> >>>> lengths. The zero value of rx_split_num field provides the backward
> >>>> compatibility and queue should be configured in a regular way (with
> >>>> single/multiple mbufs of the same data buffer length allocated from
> >>>> the single memory pool).
> >>>
> >>> From the above description it is not 100% clear how it will coexist
> >>> with:
> >>>  - existing mb_pool argument of the rte_eth_rx_queue_setup()
> >>
> >> +1
> > - supposed to be NULL if the array of lengths/pools is used
> >
> >>
> >>>  - DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER
> >>>  - DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT
> >>> How will application know that the feature is supported? Limitations?
> >>
> >> +1
> > New flag  DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_BUFFER_SPLIT is supposed to be introduced.
> > The feature requires the DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_SCATTER is set.
> > If DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_HEADER_SPLIT is set the error is returned.
> >
> >>
> >>> Is it always split by specified/fixed length?
> >>> What happens if header length is actually different?
> >>
> >> As far as I understand intention is to filter specific packets to a
> >> queue first and later do the split, so the header length will be fixed...
> >
> > Not exactly. The filtering should be handled by rte_flow engine.
> > The intention is to provide the more flexible way to describe rx
> > buffers. Currently it is the single pool with fixed size segments. No
> > way to split the packet into multiple segments with specified lengths
> > and in the specified pools. What if packet payload should be stored in
> > the physical memory on other device (GPU/Storage)? What if caching is
> > not desired for the payload (just forwarding application)? We could provide
> the special NC pool.
> > What if packet should be split into the chunks with specific gaps?
> > For Tx direction we have this opportunity to gather packet from
> > various pools and any desired combinations , but Rx is much less flexible.
> >
> >>>
> >>>> The new approach would allow splitting the ingress packets into
> >>>> multiple parts pushed to the memory with different attributes.
> >>>> For example, the packet headers can be pushed to the embedded data
> >>>> buffers within mbufs and the application data into the external
> >>>> buffers attached to mbufs allocated from the different memory pools.
> >>>> The memory attributes for the split parts may differ either - for
> >>>> example the application data may be pushed into the external memory
> >>>> located on the dedicated physical device, say GPU or NVMe. This
> >>>> would improve the DPDK receiving datapath flexibility preserving
> >>>> compatibility with existing API.
> 
> If you don't know the packet types in advance, how can you use fixed sizes to
> split a packet? Won't it be like having random parts of packet in each
> mempool..
It is per queue configuration. We have the rte_flow engine and can filter out
the desired packets to the desired queue.

> 
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
> >>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >>>> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >>>> index ea4cfa7..cd700ae 100644
> >>>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >>>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> >>>> @@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >>>>    In 19.11 PMDs will still update the field even when the offload is not
> >>>>    enabled.
> >>>>
> >>>> +* ethdev: add new fields to ``rte_eth_rxconf`` to configure the
> >>>> +receiving
> >>>> +  queues to split ingress packets into multiple segments according
> >>>> +to the
> >>>> +  specified lengths into the buffers allocated from the specified
> >>>> +  memory pools. The backward compatibility to existing API is
> preserved.
> >>>> +
> >>>>  * ethdev: ``rx_descriptor_done`` dev_ops and
> >> ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_done``
> >>>>    will be deprecated in 20.11 and will be removed in 21.11.
> >>>>    Existing ``rte_eth_rx_descriptor_status`` and
> >>>> ``rte_eth_tx_descriptor_status``
> >>>
> >


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-06 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03 10:58 Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2020-08-03 11:56 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-08-03 13:06   ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-04 13:32     ` Jerin Jacob
2020-08-05  6:35       ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-06 15:58       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-06 16:25         ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-08-06 16:41           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-08-06 17:03           ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-06 18:10             ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-08-07 11:23               ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-03 14:31 ` [dpdk-dev] ***Spam*** " Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-06 16:15   ` [dpdk-dev] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-06 16:29     ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-06 16:37       ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-06 16:39         ` Slava Ovsiienko [this message]
2020-08-06 16:43           ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-06 16:48             ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-05  8:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2020-08-05 11:14   ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-06 12:39     ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-06 21:42       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-06 16:31   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-08-06 17:00     ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-06 16:55   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: fix the release notes for Mellanox PMD Viacheslav Ovsiienko
2020-08-06 17:12     ` Asaf Penso
2020-08-06 22:37       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-08-03 15:18 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce changes to ethdev rxconf structure Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-03 15:31 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-03 16:51   ` Slava Ovsiienko
2020-08-30 12:58     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-30 18:26       ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-08-31  6:35         ` Andrew Rybchenko
2020-08-31 16:59           ` Stephen Hemminger

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