-----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 19:45:44 +0530
> From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>, dev@dpdk.org
> CC: bruce.richard...@intel.com, harry.van.haa...@intel.com,
> gage.e...@intel.com, nipun.gu...@nxp.com, narender.vang...@intel.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventdev: define the default value for dequeue timeout
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> On 5/18/2017 2:18 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > Defining the value 0 as default value for dequeue timeout
> > will help the application reduce the configuration setup
> > if the application is interested only in default
> > timeout value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
> > ---
> > This patch will fix following error found in the event_pipeline RFC
> > application
> > http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/23799/ with event_octeontx HW driver.
> >
> > EVENTDEV: rte_event_dev_configure() line 379: dev0 invalid
> > dequeue_timeout_ns=0 min_dequeue_timeout_ns=853
> > max_dequeue_timeout_ns=873813
> > ---
> > drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c | 2 ++
> > lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c | 5 +++--
> > lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 1 +
> > 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> > b/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> > index c80a44379..5499b1bf7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/event/octeontx/ssovf_evdev.c
> > @@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ ssovf_configure(const struct rte_eventdev *dev)
> >
> > ssovf_func_trace();
> > deq_tmo_ns = conf->dequeue_timeout_ns;
> > + if (deq_tmo_ns == 0)
> > + deq_tmo_ns = edev->min_deq_timeout_ns;
>
> '0' should mean don't wait?
Yes. I think, we can leave that to the driver for the minimum supported
dequeue timeout for the given platform(PMD). OCTEONTX PMD needs
different treatment for "no-wait" case, hence setting the minimum value
that PMD supports.
Any other comments on API change?
>
> >
> > if (conf->event_dev_cfg & RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT) {
> > edev->is_timeout_deq = 1;
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c
> > b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c
> > index 20afc3f0e..8cafffe03 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c
> > @@ -369,9 +369,10 @@ rte_event_dev_configure(uint8_t dev_id,
> >
> > /* Check dequeue_timeout_ns value is in limit */
> > if (!(dev_conf->event_dev_cfg & RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT))
> > {
> > - if (dev_conf->dequeue_timeout_ns < info.min_dequeue_timeout_ns
> > + if (dev_conf->dequeue_timeout_ns &&
> > + (dev_conf->dequeue_timeout_ns < info.min_dequeue_timeout_ns
> > || dev_conf->dequeue_timeout_ns >
> > - info.max_dequeue_timeout_ns) {
> > + info.max_dequeue_timeout_ns)) {
> > RTE_EDEV_LOG_ERR("dev%d invalid dequeue_timeout_ns=%d"
> > " min_dequeue_timeout_ns=%d max_dequeue_timeout_ns=%d",
> > dev_id, dev_conf->dequeue_timeout_ns,
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> > b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> > index 94284337d..f39fbc6b9 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> > @@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ struct rte_event_dev_config {
> > * This value should be in the range of *min_dequeue_timeout_ns* and
> > * *max_dequeue_timeout_ns* which previously provided in
> > * rte_event_dev_info_get()
> > + * The value 0 is allowed, in which case, default dequeue timeout used.
> > * @see RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_PER_DEQUEUE_TIMEOUT
> > */
> > int32_t nb_events_limit;
> >
>
>
