> -----Original Message----- > From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 18:13 > To: Nikhil Rao <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Hemant Agrawal > <[email protected]>; Nipun Gupta <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] eventdev: cover letter: eth Rx adapter > > -----Original Message----- > > Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 02:39:54 +0530 > > From: Nikhil Rao <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > Subject: [PATCH v5 0/7] eventdev: cover letter: eth Rx adapter > > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 > > > > Eventdev-based networking applications require a component to dequeue > > packets from NIC Rx queues and inject them into eventdev queues[1]. While > > some platforms (e.g. Cavium Octeontx) do this operation in hardware, other > > platforms use software. > > > > This patchset introduces an ethernet Rx event adapter that dequeues packets > > from ethernet devices and enqueues them to event devices. This patch is > based on > > a previous RFC[2] and supercedes [3], the main difference being that > > this version implements a common abstraction for HW and SW based packet > transfers. > > > > The adapter is designed to work with the EAL service core[4] for SW based > > packet transfers. An eventdev PMD callback is used to determine that SW > > based packet transfer service is required. The application can discover > > and configure the service with a core mask using rte_service APIs. > > > > The adapter can service multiple ethernet devices and queues. For SW based > > packet transfers each queue is configured with a servicing weight to > > control the relative frequency with which the adapter polls the queue, > > and the event fields to use when constructing packet events. The adapter > > has two modes for programming an event's flow ID: use a static per-queue > > user-specified value or use the RSS hash. > > Hi Nikhil, > > - Please re base to dpdk-next-eventdev > - There is one check-git-long error. Please fix it > Wrong headline lowercase: > eventdev: add event type for eth rx adapter > - You are planning to send the programmer guide with version. Right? > Are planning to send now or post RC1 ? > > - For it looks OK to pull in next-eventdev, after fixing the > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/077915.html and exiting > comments > > CC: Hemant Agrawal <[email protected]> > CC: Nipun Gupta <[email protected]> > > Does any have any objection to pull this in RC1 if Nikhil sends the next > version in time?
Looks fine with us. Also, we will be sending a patch to support NXP event adapter implementation based on this soon.
