[dpdk-dev] Survey for final decision about per-port offload API

[Thomas Monjalon]

02/04/2018 19:39, Patil, Harish:
> >It was also proposed to relax the API and allow "forgetting" port
> >offloads in queue offloads:
> >	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/092978.html
> >
> >It would mean the offloads applied to a queue result of OR operation:
> >	rte_eth_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads | rte_eth_[rt]xconf.offloads
> >
> >1/ Do you agree with above API change?
> 
> Yes. But pls confirm that this would still work properly if RX supports
> port-only based offloads and doesn’t support queue based offloads at all,
> as advertised in dev_infos_get().
> 
> dev_info->rx_queue_offload_capa = 0 and
> dev_info->rx_offload_capa = (DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_IPV4_CKSUM | ...);

Yes, of course, no queue offload at all is possible.