[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] ethdev: fail if requested offload is not supported

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Mon May 14 09:51:28 CEST 2018


Monday, May 14, 2018 10:36 AM, Andrew Rybchenko:
> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] ethdev: fail if requested offload is not supported
> 
> The series has fixes for problems discussed in [1].
> 
> Basically it does not allow unsupported offloads to pass.
> 
> If fixes regressions for PMDs which carefully check offloads before, but these
> checks are removed now in favor of checks in ethdev.
> 
> It may break applications which request some offload which is not supported
> by underlying PMD, but does not actually used.
> 
> Depending on discussion results it should be either dropped or applied.
> 
> [1]
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpd
> k.org%2Fml%2Farchives%2Fdev%2F2018-
> May%2F101261.html&data=02%7C01%7Cshahafs%40mellanox.com%7C9a572
> e9d86b04c99854c08d5b96d75b5%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7
> C0%7C0%7C636618802134607945&sdata=fQKCr%2FrFvakWVIFomy8iSD%2Bc
> VtSie8mvgx63Qqgq690%3D&reserved=0
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - use IGNORE flag to separate old and new offload API cases on
>    Tx queue setup and avoid expected errors if old API is used
>    as suggested by Shahaf
>  - remove convertion of rxmode bits on Rx queue setup since exactly
>    these bits are removed
> 
> Andrew Rybchenko (3):
>   ethdev: fail configure if requested offload is not supported
>   ethdev: fail if Tx queue offload is not supported
>   ethdev: fail if Rx queue offload is not supported
> 
>  lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

For the series -
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>

> 
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> 2.17.0



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