> From: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula [mailto:pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:09 PM > To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haa...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] evendev: fix inconsistency in event > queue config > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:38:57PM +0000, Van Haaren, Harry wrote:
<big snip> > > Sure, I see two sane-ish options: > > > > 1) Return an error code from get_attr(), which actually means "ALL TYPES". > Feels a bit weird, because an error value is really a valid return. > > > > 2) Return UINT_MAX (aka, -1) as the scheduling value. Applications that > use/care about the scheduling type must check, others can ignore it. > > > > I'm not sure which of these is the better/less-bad solution. Opinions? -H > > > > I think 1st option would be good, we could use ENOTUNIQ to represent that > the > queue type is "ALL TYPE". > > Thoughts? OK with me!
