On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:25:25 +0000 "Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.tr...@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] > > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 6:54 PM > > To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.tr...@intel.com> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; akhil.go...@nxp.com; Jozwiak, TomaszX > > <tomaszx.jozw...@intel.com>; > > shally.ve...@caviumnetworks.com; ashish.gu...@caviumnetworks.com; Daly, Lee > > <lee.d...@intel.com> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] compressdev: add feature flag to specify > > where processing is done > > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 01:39:48 +0000 > > Fiona Trahe <fiona.tr...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > A new device feature flag, RTE_COMPDEV_FF_SW_OP_DONE_IN_DEQUEUE > > > is added. A PMD which processes operations using a software > > > acceleration engine should set this if the bulk of the > > > processing is done during the dequeue. It should leave it > > > cleared if the bulk of the processing is done during the > > > enqueue (default). > > > An application may find this useful for tuning. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.tr...@intel.com> > > > > What application? or is this "if we build it they will come?" > [Fiona] Our storage team asked for this, so not quite. > Seems like it might by generically useful, so a bit of the latter too :) > Would you prefer I removed that line? Hopefully, there would be one or more open source projects using the API. I just did a survey of DPDK an 1/3 of it is never used by any open source project. Hate to see more dead code and special cases created. At least, some example code in examples would help. Something like a simple in memory compressed storage server using a network API (SMB?/SSH?/FTP?)
