As previously discussed in RFC v1 [1], RFC v2 [2], with changes described in [3] (also pasted below), here is the first non-draft series for this new API.
[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-August/045181.html [2] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-October/048592.html [3] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-October/048196.html Changes since RFC v2: - Updated the documentation to define the need for this library[Jerin] - Added RTE_EVENT_QUEUE_CFG_*_ONLY configuration parameters in struct rte_event_queue_conf to enable optimized sw implementation [Bruce] - Introduced RTE_EVENT_OP* ops [Bruce] - Added nb_event_queue_flows,nb_event_port_dequeue_depth, nb_event_port_enqueue_depth in rte_event_dev_configure() like ethdev and crypto library[Jerin] - Removed rte_event_release() and replaced with RTE_EVENT_OP_RELEASE ops to reduce fast path APIs and it is redundant too[Jerin] - In the view of better application portability, Removed pin_event from rte_event_enqueue as it is just hint and Intel/NXP can not support it[Jerin] - Added rte_event_port_links_get()[Jerin] - Added rte_event_dev_dump[Harry] Notes: - This patch set is check-patch clean with an exception that 02/04 has one WARNING:MACRO_WITH_FLOW_CONTROL - Looking forward to getting additional maintainers for libeventdev Possible next steps: 1) Review this patch set 2) Integrate Intel's SW driver[http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/17049/] 3) Review proposed examples/eventdev_pipeline application[http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/17053/] 4) Review proposed functional tests[http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/17051/] 5) Cavium's HW based eventdev driver I am planning to work on (3),(4) and (5) TODO: 1) Example applications for pipelining, packet ingress order maintenance with ORDERED type and ATOMIC synchronization services. 2) Create user guide Jerin Jacob (4): eventdev: introduce event driven programming model eventdev: implement the northbound APIs event/skeleton: add skeleton eventdev driver app/test: unit test case for eventdev APIs MAINTAINERS | 5 + app/test/Makefile | 2 + app/test/test_eventdev.c | 776 +++++++++++ config/common_base | 14 + doc/api/doxy-api-index.md | 1 + doc/api/doxy-api.conf | 1 + drivers/Makefile | 1 + drivers/event/Makefile | 36 + drivers/event/skeleton/Makefile | 55 + .../skeleton/rte_pmd_skeleton_event_version.map | 4 + drivers/event/skeleton/skeleton_eventdev.c | 535 ++++++++ drivers/event/skeleton/skeleton_eventdev.h | 72 + lib/Makefile | 1 + lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_log.h | 1 + lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile | 57 + lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c | 1211 ++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 1439 ++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_pmd.h | 504 +++++++ lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_version.map | 39 + mk/rte.app.mk | 5 + 20 files changed, 4759 insertions(+) create mode 100644 app/test/test_eventdev.c create mode 100644 drivers/event/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/event/skeleton/Makefile create mode 100644 drivers/event/skeleton/rte_pmd_skeleton_event_version.map create mode 100644 drivers/event/skeleton/skeleton_eventdev.c create mode 100644 drivers/event/skeleton/skeleton_eventdev.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_pmd.h create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_version.map -- 2.5.5