[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 1/6] ethdev: add Tx preparation

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Thu Dec 22 14:30:38 CET 2016


2016-12-12 11:51, Ananyev, Konstantin:
> > > The application gets few information from tx_prepare() about what should
> > > be done to make the packet accepted by the hw, and the actions will
> > > probably be different depending on hardware.
> 
> That's true.
> I am open to suggestions how in future to provide extra information to the upper layer.
> Set rte_errno to different values depending on type of error,
> OR extra parameter in tx_prepare() that will provide more detailed error information,
> OR something else?

That's one of the reason which give me a feeling that it is safer
to introduce tx_prepare as an experimental API in 17.02.
So the users will know that it can change in the next release.
What do you think?


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