06/08/2022 00:00, Cristian Dumitrescu:
> In case of blocking behavior, the output port retries sending the
> packets that could not be sent successfully. The retry can take place
> potentially forever in case the Ethernet device or the ring consumer
> are down, which leads to deadlock.
>
> In case of the non-blocking behavior introduced by this series, the
> packets that could not be sent successfully are dropped and the
> associated drop statistics counters are incremented.
>
> Depends-on: series-24205 ("net/softnic: replace the legacy pipeline with SWX
> pipeline")
>
> Cristian Dumitrescu (10):
> port: add output port packet drop statistics couters
> port: adjust the sink port counters
> port: rework the Ethernet device output port behavior to non-blocking
> port: free buffered packets on Ethernet device output port free
> port: prevent unnecessary flush for the Ethernet device output port
> port: rework the ring output port behavior to non-blocking
> port: free buffered packets on ring output port free
> port: prevent unnecessary flush for the ring output port
> examples/pipeline: print the output port packet drop counters
> net/softnic: print the output port packet drop counters
Applied, thanks.
