[RFC] ethdev: fast path async flow API

[Dariusz Sosnowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov at arknetworks.am>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 19:29
> Hi Dariusz,
> 
> I appreciate your response. All to the point.
> 
> I have to confess my question was inspired by the 23.11 merge commit in OVS
> mailing list. I first thought that an obvious consumer for the async flow API
> could have been OVS but saw no usage of it in the current code. It was my
> impression that there had been some patches in OVS already, waiting either
> for approval/testing or for this particular optimisation to be accepted first.
> 
> So far I've been mistaken -- there are no such patches, hence my question. Do
> we have real-world examples of the async flow usage? Should it be tested
> somehow...
> 
> (I apologise in case I'm asking for too many clarifications).
> 
> Thank you.
No need to apologize :)

Unfortunately, we are yet to see async flow API adoption in other open-source projects.
Until now, only direct NVIDIA customers use async flow API in their products.

Best regards,
Dariusz Sosnowski