On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 05:17:12PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:22:17AM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > This patch implements northbound eventdev API interface using
> > southbond driver interface
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>
> > ---
> > + /* Re allocate memory to store queue priority */
> > + queues_prio = dev->data->queues_prio;
> > + queues_prio = rte_realloc(queues_prio,
> > + sizeof(queues_prio[0]) * nb_queues,
> > + RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
> > + if (queues_prio == NULL) {
> > + RTE_EDEV_LOG_ERR("failed to realloc queue priority,"
> > + " nb_queues %u", nb_queues);
> > + return -(ENOMEM);
> > + }
> > + dev->data->queues_prio = queues_prio;
> > +
> > + if (nb_queues > old_nb_queues) {
> > + uint8_t new_qs = nb_queues - old_nb_queues;
> > +
> > + memset(queues + old_nb_queues, 0,
> > + sizeof(queues[0]) * new_qs);
> > + memset(queues_prio + old_nb_queues, 0,
> > + sizeof(queues_prio[0]) * new_qs);
> > + }
> > + } else if (dev->data->queues != NULL && nb_queues == 0) {
> > + RTE_FUNC_PTR_OR_ERR_RET(*dev->dev_ops->queue_release, -ENOTSUP);
> > +
> > + queues = dev->data->queues;
> > + for (i = nb_queues; i < old_nb_queues; i++)
> > + (*dev->dev_ops->queue_release)(queues[i]);
> > + }
> > +
> > + dev->data->nb_queues = nb_queues;
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> While the ports array makes sense to have available at the top level of
> the API and allocated from rte_eventdev.c, I'm not seeing what the value
> of having the queues allocated at that level is. The only time the queue
> array is indexed by eventdev layer is when releasing a queue. Therefore,
> I suggest just saving the number of queues for sanity checking and let
> the queue array allocation and freeing be handled entirely in the
> drivers themselves.
I thought it would be useful for other drivers. I agree, If something is not
common across all the driver lets remove it from common code.
I will remove it in v3
>
> /Bruce
