From: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
To: "Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" <matias.elo@nokia.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] eventdev: method for finding out unlink status
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 13:14:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E923DB57A917B54B9182A2E928D00FA65E2ADCA2@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FB101081-5D5A-4FEA-9352-048D47BA05A7@nokia.com>
> From: Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo) [mailto:matias.elo@nokia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:05 AM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] eventdev: method for finding out unlink status
>
>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I think the end result we're hoping for is something like pseudo
> code below,
> >>>>>>> (keep in mind that the event/sw has a service-core thread running
> it, so no
> >>>>>>> application code there):
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> int worker_poll = 1;
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> worker() {
> >>>>>>> while(worker_poll) {
> >>>>>>> // eventdev_dequeue_burst() etc
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>> go_to_sleep(1);
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> control_plane_scale_down() {
> >>>>>>> unlink(evdev, worker, queue_id);
> >>>>>>> while(unlinks_in_progress(evdev) > 0)
> >>>>>>> usleep(100);
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> /* here we know that the unlink is complete.
> >>>>>>> * so we can now stop the worker from polling */
> >>>>>>> worker_poll = 0;
> >>>>>>> }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Make sense. Instead of rte_event_is_unlink_in_progress(), How about
> >>>>>> adding a callback in rte_event_port_unlink() which will be called on
> >>>>>> unlink completion. It will reduce the need for ONE more API.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Anyway it RC2 now, so we can not accept a new feature. So we will
> have
> >>>>>> time for deprecation notice.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Both solutions should work but I would perhaps favor Harry's approach
> as it
> >>>>> requires less code in the application side and doesn't break backward
> >>>>> compatibility.
> >>>>
> >>>> OK.
> >>>>
> >>>> Does rte_event_port_unlink() returning -EBUSY will help?
> >>>
> >>> It could perhaps work. The return value becomes a bit ambiguous though.
> E.g. how
> >>> to differentiate a delayed unlink completion from a scenario where the
> port & queues
> >>> have never been linked?
> >>
> >> Based on return code?
> >
> > Yes, that works. I was thinking about the complexity of the implementation
> as it would
> > have to also track the pending unlink requests. But anyway, Harry is
> better answering
> > these questions since I guess he would be implementing this.
>
>
> Hi Harry,
>
> Have you had time to think about this?
Hey, Yes I'm just collecting my thoughts at the moment, I see a few small quirks;
1) I see the "return -EBUSY from port_unlink()" solution as overloading the rte_event_port_unlink() API.
We lose some self-documenting semantics of the code, see the following snippet @ 1) marker.
2) If some unlinks fail, and others are in progress, we cannot describe that in a single return.
See 2) marker in code below.
int ret = rte_event_port_unlink(dev, port, queues[], nb_queues);
while (ret == -EBUSY) {
// 1) what args to pass here? It looks like we want to unlink again?
// 2) some unlinks fail, and others are -EBUSY: There is no appropriate ret code in that case
ret = rte_event_port_unlink(...);
}
Contrast that to the following, which I feel is simpler and more descriptive:
int ret = rte_event_port_unlink(dev, port, queues[], nb_queues);
while (rte_event_port_unlink_in_progress(dev, port) > 0)
rte_delay();
Here the port_unlink() call can sanity-check the unlinks, and return -EINVAL if invalid requests,
and we can detect other unlinks in progress too using the explicit API.
Regarding adding an API / function-pointer, is there actually a measurable cost there?
Are we willing to sacrifice code-readability and self-documentation?
-Harry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-09 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-30 6:39 Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-07-30 7:54 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-07-30 9:17 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-07-30 9:29 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-07-30 9:38 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-07-30 10:28 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-07-30 10:36 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-07-30 13:36 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-07-30 14:26 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-07-31 8:09 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-07-31 8:31 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-07-31 9:27 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-08-08 10:05 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-08-09 13:14 ` Van Haaren, Harry [this message]
2018-08-09 14:18 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-08-10 14:24 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-08-10 14:52 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-08-10 16:55 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-08-10 17:35 ` Jerin Jacob
2018-09-05 7:49 ` Elo, Matias (Nokia - FI/Espoo)
2018-09-12 15:17 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-07-30 15:32 ` Liang, Ma
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