[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] net/softnic: sw fall-back for traffic management
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Jul 5 01:48:29 CEST 2017
08/06/2017 18:43, Dumitrescu, Cristian:
> <snip> ...
> >
> > I'm sure I'm missing something.
> > In my understanding, we do not need to change the ops:
> > - if the device offers the capability, let's call the ops
> > - else call the software fallback function
> >
>
> What you might be missing is the observation that the approach you're describing requires changing each and every PMD. The changes are also intrusive: need to change the ops that need the SW fall-back patching, also need to change the private data of each PMD (as assigned to the opaque dev->data->dev_private) to add the context data needed by the patched ops. Therefore, this approach is a no-go.
>
> We are looking for a generic approach that can gracefully and transparently work with any PMD.
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