03/06/2021 11:33, Ferruh Yigit: > On 6/3/2021 8:47 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 2:05 AM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > >> + [gpudev] (@ref rte_gpudev.h), > > > > Since this device does not have a queue etc? Shouldn't make it a > > library like mempool with vendor-defined ops? > > +1 > > Current RFC announces additional memory allocation capabilities, which can > suits > better as extension to existing memory related library instead of a new device > abstraction library.
It is not replacing mempool. It is more at the same level as EAL memory management: allocate simple buffer, but with the exception it is done on a specific device, so it requires a device ID. The other reason it needs to be a full library is that it will start a workload on the GPU and get completion notification so we can integrate the GPU workload in a packet processing pipeline.
