RE: [PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: use single set of variables throughout the code

[Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>]

Question for stable maintainers. 

DTS WG would like this patch to be merged in 21.11 and 20.11 stable releases even though it is not a bug fix. This allows for a single DTS version to be used with both those stable releases and master.

Do you have any objections?

Thank you,
Honnappa


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:10 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org; Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>;
> lijuan.tu@intel.com; juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech; ohilyard@iol.unh.edu;
> david.marchand@redhat.com; thomas@monjalon.net; jerinj@marvell.com;
> bruce.richardson@intel.com; stephen@networkplumber.org;
> bluca@debian.org; ktraynor@redhat.com; christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com;
> xuemingl@nvidia.com
> Cc: Kathleen Capella <Kathleen.Capella@arm.com>; nd <nd@arm.com>;
> Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: use single set of variables throughout
> the code
> 
> nb_rxd and nb_txd are used in polling mode and event mode of operation.
> nb_rxd and nb_txd are already global in polling mode but are not visible to
> event mode code. Make them visible to all parts of the application.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kathleen Capella <kathleen.capella@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> ---
> DTS test cases require changing the RX and TX queue depths.
> Currently, this is achieved by patching the DPDK code. This patch set provides a
> mechanism to configure the queue depths while launching the application. With
> this change DTS test cases do not need to modify the DPDK code.
> 
> v2 - Single parse function, additional validation on input (Stephen)
> 
> v2 - Fixed typo (Ruifeng) and adjusted the commit msg (Kathleen).
> 
>  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h       | 4 ++++
>  examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c | 2 --
>  examples/l3fwd/main.c        | 5 ++---
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h index
> 38ca19133c..4ccdb28b4a 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ struct lcore_conf {
> 
>  extern volatile bool force_quit;
> 
> +/* RX and TX queue depths */
> +extern uint16_t nb_rxd;
> +extern uint16_t nb_txd;
> +
>  /* ethernet addresses of ports */
>  extern uint64_t dest_eth_addr[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS];  extern struct
> rte_ether_addr ports_eth_addr[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS]; diff --git
> a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c index
> dd9eafa9b9..7a401290f8 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c
> @@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ l3fwd_eth_dev_port_setup(struct rte_eth_conf
> *port_conf)  {
>  	struct l3fwd_event_resources *evt_rsrc = l3fwd_get_eventdev_rsrc();
>  	uint16_t nb_ports = rte_eth_dev_count_avail();
> -	uint16_t nb_rxd = RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> -	uint16_t nb_txd = RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
>  	unsigned int nb_lcores = rte_lcore_count();
>  	struct rte_eth_conf local_port_conf;
>  	struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info;
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/main.c b/examples/l3fwd/main.c index
> eb68ffc5aa..acd186ab7d 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/main.c
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/main.c
> @@ -53,9 +53,8 @@
> 
>  #define MAX_LCORE_PARAMS 1024
> 
> -/* Static global variables used within this file. */ -static uint16_t nb_rxd =
> RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT; -static uint16_t nb_txd =
> RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> +uint16_t nb_rxd = RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT; uint16_t nb_txd =
> +RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> 
>  /**< Ports set in promiscuous mode off by default. */  static int
> promiscuous_on;
> --
> 2.25.1