[PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: use single set of variables throughout the code
Honnappa Nagarahalli
Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
Wed Feb 23 07:13:22 CET 2022
Question for stable maintainers.
DTS WG would like this patch to be merged in 21.11 and 20.11 stable releases even though it is not a bug fix. This allows for a single DTS version to be used with both those stable releases and master.
Do you have any objections?
Thank you,
Honnappa
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:10 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org; Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>;
> lijuan.tu at intel.com; juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech; ohilyard at iol.unh.edu;
> david.marchand at redhat.com; thomas at monjalon.net; jerinj at marvell.com;
> bruce.richardson at intel.com; stephen at networkplumber.org;
> bluca at debian.org; ktraynor at redhat.com; christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com;
> xuemingl at nvidia.com
> Cc: Kathleen Capella <Kathleen.Capella at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>;
> Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] examples/l3fwd: use single set of variables throughout
> the code
>
> nb_rxd and nb_txd are used in polling mode and event mode of operation.
> nb_rxd and nb_txd are already global in polling mode but are not visible to
> event mode code. Make them visible to all parts of the application.
>
> Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kathleen Capella <kathleen.capella at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
> DTS test cases require changing the RX and TX queue depths.
> Currently, this is achieved by patching the DPDK code. This patch set provides a
> mechanism to configure the queue depths while launching the application. With
> this change DTS test cases do not need to modify the DPDK code.
>
> v2 - Single parse function, additional validation on input (Stephen)
>
> v2 - Fixed typo (Ruifeng) and adjusted the commit msg (Kathleen).
>
> examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h | 4 ++++
> examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c | 2 --
> examples/l3fwd/main.c | 5 ++---
> 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h index
> 38ca19133c..4ccdb28b4a 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ struct lcore_conf {
>
> extern volatile bool force_quit;
>
> +/* RX and TX queue depths */
> +extern uint16_t nb_rxd;
> +extern uint16_t nb_txd;
> +
> /* ethernet addresses of ports */
> extern uint64_t dest_eth_addr[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS]; extern struct
> rte_ether_addr ports_eth_addr[RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS]; diff --git
> a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c index
> dd9eafa9b9..7a401290f8 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/l3fwd_event.c
> @@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ l3fwd_eth_dev_port_setup(struct rte_eth_conf
> *port_conf) {
> struct l3fwd_event_resources *evt_rsrc = l3fwd_get_eventdev_rsrc();
> uint16_t nb_ports = rte_eth_dev_count_avail();
> - uint16_t nb_rxd = RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> - uint16_t nb_txd = RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> unsigned int nb_lcores = rte_lcore_count();
> struct rte_eth_conf local_port_conf;
> struct rte_eth_dev_info dev_info;
> diff --git a/examples/l3fwd/main.c b/examples/l3fwd/main.c index
> eb68ffc5aa..acd186ab7d 100644
> --- a/examples/l3fwd/main.c
> +++ b/examples/l3fwd/main.c
> @@ -53,9 +53,8 @@
>
> #define MAX_LCORE_PARAMS 1024
>
> -/* Static global variables used within this file. */ -static uint16_t nb_rxd =
> RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT; -static uint16_t nb_txd =
> RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
> +uint16_t nb_rxd = RTE_TEST_RX_DESC_DEFAULT; uint16_t nb_txd =
> +RTE_TEST_TX_DESC_DEFAULT;
>
> /**< Ports set in promiscuous mode off by default. */ static int
> promiscuous_on;
> --
> 2.25.1
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