[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] libeventdev API and northbound implementation

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:22:14AM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> As previously discussed in RFC v1 [1], RFC v2 [2], with changes
> described in [3] (also pasted below), here is the first non-draft series
> for this new API.
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-August/045181.html
> [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-October/048592.html
> [3] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-October/048196.html
> 
> v1..v2:
> 1) Remove unnecessary header files from rte_eventdev.h(Thomas)
> 2) Removed PMD driver name(EVENTDEV_NAME_SKELETON_PMD) from rte_eventdev.h(Thomas)
> 3) Removed different #define for different priority schemes. Changed to
> one event device RTE_EVENT_DEV_PRIORITY_* priority (Bruce)
> 4) add const to rte_event_dev_configure(), rte_event_queue_setup(),
> rte_event_port_setup(), rte_event_port_link()(Bruce)
> 5) Fixed missing dev argument in dev->schedule() function(Bruce)
> 6) Changed \see to @see in doxgen comments(Thomas)
> 7) Added additional text in specification to clarify the queue depth(Thomas)
> 8) Changed wait to timeout across the specification(Thomas)
> 9) Added longer explanation for RTE_EVENT_OP_NEW and RTE_EVENT_OP_FORWARD(Thomas)
> 10) Fixed issue with RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE doxgen formatting(Thomas)
> 11) Changed to RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_FLAG_ from RTE_EVENT_DEV_CFG_(Thomas)
> 12) Changed to EVENT_QUEUE_CFG_FLAG_ from EVENT_QUEUE_CFG_(Thomas)
> 13) s/RTE_EVENT_TYPE_CORE/RTE_EVENT_TYPE_CPU/(Thomas, Gage)
> 14) Removed non burst API and kept only the burst API in the API specification
> (Thomas, Bruce, Harry, Jerin)
> -- Driver interface has non burst API, selection of the non burst API is based
> on num_objects == 1
> 15) sizeeof(struct rte_event) was not 16 in v1. Fixed it in v2
> -- reduced the width of event_type to 4bit to save space for future change
> -- introduced impl_opaque for implementation specific opaque data(Harry),
> Something useful for HW driver too, in the context of removal the need for sepeare
> release API.
> -- squashed other element size and provided enough space to impl_opaque(Jerin)
> -- added RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct rte_event) != 16); check
> 16) add union of uint64_t in the second element in struct rte_event to
> make sure the structure has 16byte address all arch(Thomas)
> 17) Fixed invalid check of nb_atomic_order_sequences in implementation(Gage)
> 18) s/EDEV_LOG_ERR/RTE_EDEV_LOG_ERR(Thomas)
> 19) s/rte_eventdev_pmd_/rte_event_pmd_/(Bruce)
> 20) added fine details of distributed vs centralized scheduling information
> in the specification and introduced RTE_EVENT_DEV_CAP_FLAG_DISTRIBUTED_SCHED
> flag(Gage)
> 21)s/RTE_EVENT_QUEUE_CFG_FLAG_SINGLE_CONSUMER/RTE_EVENT_QUEUE_CFG_FLAG_SINGLE_LINK (Jerin)
> to remove the confusion to between another producer and consumer in sw eventdev driver
> 22) Northbound api implementation  patch spited to more logical patches(Thomas)
> 
> 
Thanks for this Jerin, great job tracking the changes between the
versions.
Couple of comments I have to make on the patches thus far, but I think
we are near having a first version we can commit to a next-event tree.

/Bruce