[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/bonding: support configuring Tx offloading for bonding

[Andrew Rybchenko]

"for bonding" is redundant in the summary since it is already
"net/bonding"

On 4/23/21 12:46 PM, Chengchang Tang wrote:
> Currently, the TX offloading of the bonding device will not take effect by

TX -> Tx

> using dev_configure. Because the related configuration will not be
> delivered to the slave devices in this way.

I think it is a major problem that Tx offloads are actually
ignored. It should be a patches with "Fixes:" which addresses
it.

> The Tx offloading capability of the bonding device is the intersection of
> the capability of all slave devices. Based on this, the following functions
> are added to the bonding driver:
> 1. If a Tx offloading is within the capability of the bonding device (i.e.
> all the slave devices support this Tx offloading), the enabling status of
> the offloading of all slave devices depends on the configuration of the
> bonding device.
> 
> 2. For the Tx offloading that is not within the Tx offloading capability
> of the bonding device, the enabling status of the offloading on the slave
> devices is irrelevant to the bonding device configuration. And it depends
> on the original configuration of the slave devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengchang Tang <tangchengchang at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> index 84af348..9922657 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/rte_eth_bond_pmd.c
> @@ -1712,6 +1712,8 @@ slave_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *bonded_eth_dev,
>  	struct rte_flow_error flow_error;
> 
>  	struct bond_dev_private *internals = bonded_eth_dev->data->dev_private;
> +	uint64_t tx_offload_cap = internals->tx_offload_capa;
> +	uint64_t tx_offload;
> 
>  	/* Stop slave */
>  	errval = rte_eth_dev_stop(slave_eth_dev->data->port_id);
> @@ -1759,6 +1761,17 @@ slave_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *bonded_eth_dev,
>  		slave_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode.offloads &=
>  				~DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_JUMBO_FRAME;
> 
> +	while (tx_offload_cap != 0) {
> +		tx_offload = 1ULL << __builtin_ctzll(tx_offload_cap);
> +		if (bonded_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.txmode.offloads & tx_offload)
> +			slave_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.txmode.offloads |=
> +				tx_offload;
> +		else
> +			slave_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.txmode.offloads &=
> +				~tx_offload;
> +		tx_offload_cap &= ~tx_offload;
> +	}
> +

Frankly speaking I don't understand why it is that complicated.
ethdev rejects of unsupported Tx offloads. So, can't we simply:
slave_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.txmode.offloads =
    bonded_eth_dev->data->dev_conf.txmode.offloads;