-----Original Message----- > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:06:13 -0500 > From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> > To: dev@dpdk.org > CC: honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com, gavin...@arm.com, n...@arm.com > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] queue: introduce queue APIs and driver framework > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 > > > DPDK offers pipeline model of packet processing. One of the key > components of this model is the core to core packet exchange. > rte_ring and rte_event_ring functions are 2 methods provided > currently for core to core communication. However, these two > do not separate the APIs from implementation. This does not > allow using hardware queue implementations in pipeline model. > This change adds queue APIs and driver framework so that > HW queues can be used for core to core communication in > pipeline model. > When different implementations (ex: HW queues and rte_ring) are used
Just to understand, Do you have any HW in mind where it can do generic multi producer/multi consumer queue operations for core to core in HW as offload. > for the same object in different platforms, it is important to > make sure that the application is portable. Hence features of > different implementations must be elevated to the API level, so that > the application writers can make the right choice. > Currently, basic APIs are created, will add more required APIs > as this progresses. > > Honnappa Nagarahalli (1): > queue: introduce queue APIs and driver framework > > lib/librte_queue/rte_queue.c | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/librte_queue/rte_queue.h | 200 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/librte_queue/rte_queue_driver.h | 157 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 479 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 lib/librte_queue/rte_queue.c > create mode 100644 lib/librte_queue/rte_queue.h > create mode 100644 lib/librte_queue/rte_queue_driver.h > > -- > 2.7.4 >
