[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/13] examples/eventdev: add non burst mode generic worker

[Van Haaren, Harry]

> From: Pavan Nikhilesh [mailto:pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 8:37 PM
> To: Eads, Gage <gage.eads at intel.com>; jerin.jacobkollanukkaran at cavium.com;
> Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; Rao, Nikhil
> <nikhil.rao at intel.com>; hemant.agrawal at nxp.com; Ma, Liang J
> <liang.j.ma at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 06/13] examples/eventdev: add non burst mode generic worker
> 
> Currently, worker uses burst dequeue and burst enqueue to forward events.
> Add a non burst mode based on the event dev capabilities.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>

<snip>

> diff --git a/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_worker_generic.c
> b/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_worker_generic.c
> index a72b7b2f9..5998aae95 100644
> --- a/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_worker_generic.c
> +++ b/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_worker_generic.c
> @@ -1,5 +1,91 @@
> +/*
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Adding a license to an existing file? Also can now be updated to SPDX style

>  static __rte_always_inline int
>  consumer_burst(void)
>  {
> @@ -412,9 +555,13 @@ generic_opt_check(void)
>  void
>  set_worker_generic_setup_data(struct setup_data *caps, bool burst)
>  {
> -	RTE_SET_USED(burst);
> -	caps->consumer_loop = consumer_burst;
> -	caps->worker_loop = worker_generic_burst;
> +	if (burst) {
> +		caps->consumer_loop = consumer_burst;
> +		caps->worker_loop = worker_generic_burst;
> +	} else {
> +		caps->consumer_loop = consumer;
> +		caps->worker_loop = worker_generic;
> +	}

This won't scale well. See notes on future patch (9/13 and 10/13)