On 5/10/2018 1:56 AM, Wei Dai wrote: > This patch check if a input requested offloading is valid or not. > Any reuqested offloading must be supported in the device capabilities. > Any offloading is disabled by default if it is not set in the parameter > dev_conf->[rt]xmode.offloads to rte_eth_dev_configure( ) and > [rt]x_conf->offloads to rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup( ). > If any offloading is enabled in rte_eth_dev_configure( ) by application, > it is enabled on all queues no matter whether it is per-queue or > per-port type and no matter whether it is set or cleared in > [rt]x_conf->offloads to rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup( ). > If a per-queue offloading hasn't be enabled in rte_eth_dev_configure( ), > it can be enabled or disabled for individual queue in > ret_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup( ). > A new added offloading is the one which hasn't been enabled in > rte_eth_dev_configure( ) and is reuqested to be enabled in > rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup( ), it must be per-queue type, > otherwise triger an error log. > The underlying PMD must be aware that the requested offloadings > to PMD specific queue_setup( ) function only carries those > new added offloadings of per-queue type. > > This patch can make above such checking in a common way in rte_ethdev > layer to avoid same checking in underlying PMD. > > This patch assumes that all PMDs in 18.05-rc2 have already > converted to offload API defined in 17.11 . It also assumes > that all PMDs can return correct offloading capabilities > in rte_eth_dev_infos_get( ). > > In the beginning of [rt]x_queue_setup( ) of underlying PMD, > add offloads = [rt]xconf->offloads | > dev->data->dev_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads; to keep same as offload API > defined in 17.11 to avoid upper application broken due to offload > API change. > PMD can use the info that input [rt]xconf->offloads only carry > the new added per-queue offloads to do some optimization or some > code change on base of this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Wei Dai <wei....@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks. Hi Thomas, I remember you have mentioned you will have some comments on doxygen, I get the patch into next-net so that it can be tested, we can squash doc updates later.
