[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] ethdev: get the supported pool for a port

Olivier MATZ olivier.matz at 6wind.com
Mon Oct 2 16:31:50 CEST 2017


On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 02:44:40PM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> Now that dpdk supports more than one mempool drivers and
> each mempool driver works best for specific PMD, example:
> - sw ring based mempool for Intel PMD drivers.
> - dpaa2 HW mempool manager for dpaa2 PMD driver.
> - fpa HW mempool manager for Octeontx PMD driver.
> 
> Application would like to know the best mempool handle
> for any port.
> 
> Introducing rte_eth_dev_pool_ops_supported() API,
> which allows PMD driver to advertise
> his supported pool capability to the application.
> 
> Supported pools are categorized in below priority:-
> - Best mempool handle for this port (Highest priority '0')
> - Port supports this mempool handle (Priority '1')
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>


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