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> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Shahaf Shuler
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:06 PM
> To: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Andrew Rybchenko 
> <arybche...@solarflare.com>; Mcnamara, John
> <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Kovacevic, Marko <marko.kovace...@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; pa...@dpdk.org; 
> Harish <harish.pa...@cavium.com>; Ivan Malov
> <ivan.ma...@oktetlabs.ru>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update new ethdev offload API description
> 
> Wednesday, March 21, 2018 2:52 PM, Ferruh Yigit:
> > On 3/21/2018 11:40 AM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > > Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:37 PM, Andrew Rybchenko:
> > >> On 03/21/2018 02:23 PM, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Wednesday, March 21, 2018 1:20 PM, *:*Andrew Rybchenko
> > >>>
> > >>>> Not exactly. We should add statement to allow to enable queue
> > >>>> offloads on port level (to enable on all queues).
> > >>>
> > >>> Why it is needed ?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> May be just a paranoia to avoid misreading/misunderstanding.
> > >>
> > >>> Queue offload is also a port offload, for the simple case it is
> > >>> enabled on each of the queues.
> > >>>
> > >>> PMDs should report rx[tx]_offload_capa = port_offloads |
> > >>> queue_offloads
> > >>>
> > >>> So from the application side it enables a **port** offload which, by
> > >>> definition, will set the offload to each of the queues.
> > >>>
> > >>> it is not “enabling queue offload on the port”.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I think it would be really useful for understanding to highlight that
> > >> what is enabled on port level is enabled on all queues regardless queue
> > conf.
> > >
> > > So I think the extra wording should explain that queue offload is also a 
> > > port
> > offload, and not to mix between the queue and port offload configuration.
> >
> > +1 for more details, the sentences was the outcome of the previous
> > +discussion
> > but not clear enough. Perhaps some sample values can be also good.
> > Shahaf do you want to give a try?
> 
> IMO what is missing is:
> 1. the syntax of this patch
> 2. explicitly write that queue offloads are always subset of the port offload
> 3. explicitly write that when port offload is enabled it applies to all 
> queues (that one is already written AFAIR).
For me examples below seems quite handy.
It clearly shows that queue_setup() can do both: enable and disable any 
per-queue offload. 
Konstantin

> 
> >
> > And is following correct based on latest :
> > 1- Port capability is always covers queue capability P_cap = A, B, C, D 
> > Q_cap =
> > B, C, D
> >
> > 2- Requested port offloads should be subset of port capabilities, they will 
> > be
> > applied to all queues:
> > P_req = A, B
> > Q1: A, B
> > Q2: A, B
> >
> > 3- Later, requested queue offloads should be subset of queue capabilities,
> > they will be applied to specific queue:
> > Q_req = 1:B, C
> > Q1: A, B, C
> > Q2: A, B
> >
> > Q_req = 2:D
> > Q1: A, B, C
> > Q2: A, D
> >
> >
> > Scenario 2:
> > 1-
> > P_cap = A, B, C, D
> > Q_cap = ""
> >
> > 2-
> > P_req = A, B
> > Q1: A, B
> > Q2: A, B
> >
> > 3-
> > Q_req = ""
> > Q1: A, B
> > Q2: A, B

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