[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update new ethdev offload API description

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Wed Mar 21 12:37:09 CET 2018


On 03/21/2018 02:23 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
>
> Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:20 PM, *:*Andrew Rybchenko
>
> >Not exactly. We should add statement to allow to enable queue offloads
> >on port level (to enable on all queues).
>
> Why it is needed ?
>

May be just a paranoia to avoid misreading/misunderstanding.

> Queue offload is also a port offload, for the simple case it is 
> enabled on each of the queues.
>
> PMDs should report rx[tx]_offload_capa = port_offloads | queue_offloads
>
> So from the application side it enables a **port** offload which, by 
> definition, will set the offload to each of the queues.
>
> it is not “enabling queue offload on the port”.
>

I think it would be really useful for understanding to highlight
that what is enabled on port level is enabled on all queues
regardless queue conf.


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