From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>,
arybchenko@solarflare.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, rasland@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: add field for device data per process
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 12:31:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3e59141-ee0d-e7ac-cf4a-023b95ddf55c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <256449070.EJcjglVyyx@xps>
On 10/3/2018 9:44 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> + Cc more people
>
> 27/09/2018 13:26, Alejandro Lucero:
>> Primary and secondary processes share a per-device private data. With
>> current design it is not possible to have data per-device per-process.
>> This is required for handling properly the CPP interface inside the NFP
>> PMD with multiprocess support.
>>
>> There is also at least another PMD driver, tap, with similar
>> requirements for per-process device data.
>
> Yes, it is required to fix tap PMD for multi-process usage.
>
> I am in favor of accepting this change in 18.11.
+1
>
> [...]
>> @@ -539,7 +539,13 @@ struct rte_eth_dev {
>> eth_rx_burst_t rx_pkt_burst; /**< Pointer to PMD receive function. */
>> eth_tx_burst_t tx_pkt_burst; /**< Pointer to PMD transmit function. */
>> eth_tx_prep_t tx_pkt_prepare; /**< Pointer to PMD transmit prepare function. */
>> - struct rte_eth_dev_data *data; /**< Pointer to device data */
>> + /**
>> + * Next two fields are per-device data but *data is shared between
>
> All fields in rte_eth_dev are per-device.
>
>> + * primary and secondary processes and *process_private is per-process
>> + * private.
>> + */
>> + struct rte_eth_dev_data *data; /**< Pointer to device data. */
>> + void *process_private; /**< Pointer to per-process device data. */
>
> We could explain here that this memory is allocated by the PMD.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-04 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 11:26 Alejandro Lucero
2018-10-03 20:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-10-04 11:31 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2018-10-05 13:01 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 13:17 ` Alejandro Lucero
2018-10-05 13:26 ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-10-05 14:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
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