[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/13] examples/eventdev: add thread safe Tx worker pipeline

Pavan Nikhilesh pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com
Tue Dec 19 19:55:15 CET 2017


Hi Harry,

Thanks for review and comments. Feedback inline.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:00:02PM +0000, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
> > 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 07/13] examples/eventdev: add thread safe Tx worker pipeline
> >
> > Add worker pipeline when Tx is multi thread safe.
> > Probe Ethernet dev capabilities and select it it is supported.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at caviumnetworks.com>
>
> <snip>
>
> >  static void
> > diff --git a/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_common.h
> > b/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_common.h
> > index a5837c99b..0b27d1eb0 100644
> > --- a/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_common.h
> > +++ b/examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/pipeline_common.h
> > @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ struct config_data {
> >  	int dump_dev_signal;
> >  	unsigned int num_stages;
> >  	unsigned int worker_cq_depth;
> > +	unsigned int rx_stride;
>
> Perhaps comment what "rx stride" does? The others variables are logical enough to me, but this one I don't get..

Sure, will add comments explaining why we need rx stride.
It would basically reduce congestion in entry queue when using multi ports.

>
> > +static int
> > +setup_eventdev_w(struct prod_data *prod_data,
> > +		struct cons_data *cons_data,
> > +		struct worker_data *worker_data)
>
> I think this function name can be improved - what does the w mean?
>
I will redo the funtion name according to pipeline name.
`setup_eventdev_worker_generic`
`setup_eventdev_worker_tx`

Pavan


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