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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Mar 30 17:46:48 CEST 2018


30/03/2018 17:13, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 03/30/2018 04:47 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > There is the same kind of confusion in the offload capabilities:
> > 	rte_eth_dev_info.[rt]x_offload_capa
> > 	rte_eth_dev_info.[rt]x_queue_offload_capa
> > The queue capabilities must be a subset of port capabilities,
> > i.e. every queue capabilities must be reported as port capabilities.
> > But the port capabilities should be reported at queue level
> > only if it can be applied to a specific queue.
> >
> > 4/ Do you agree with above statement (to be added in the doc)?
> 
> Yes, may be it would be good to be more precise what "can be applied" mean.
> As I understand it is "can be enabled on queue when it is disabled on 
> port level".

Yes, "can be applied to a specific queue" means
"can be enabled on queue when it is disabled on port level".

Thanks for answering the survey.




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