Re: [PATCH 1/2] eventdev: add event adapter for ethernet Rx queues

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:55:38 +0530
> From: "Rao, Nikhil" <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
> To: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> CC: gage.eads@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net,
>  bruce.richardson@intel.com, harry.van.haaren@intel.com,
>  hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, nipun.gupta@nxp.com, narender.vangati@intel.com,
>  Abhinandan Gujjar <abhinandan.gujjar@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eventdev: add event adapter for ethernet Rx queues
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> On 8/1/2017 10:12 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > > I have had the application specify the name. so that it can call
> > > 
> > > struct rte_service_spec *rte_service_get_by_name(const char *name);
> > 
> > OK. I was thinking like there will be fixed name for the rx_adapter
> > service like "eth_rx_adapter_%d"(%d for adapter id) which be exposed in
> > rte_event_eth_rx_adapter.h.
> > It can help in removing cfg.service_name. I am fine with either way.
> > 
> 
> OK, I will use a fixed name.
> 
> > > > eventdev PMD op api(not as adapter PMD as discussed earlier)
> > > > -------------------
> > > > 
> > > > 1) typedef uint64_t (*eventdev_rx_adap_capa)(struct rte_eventdev *dev,  uint8_t ethdev_id)
> > > > 
> > > > Return the adapter capability of a given eventdev when it needs to
> > > > connected to a specific ethdev_id
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Doesn't the capability of a <eventdev, ethdev> also need to be made
> > > available to the application as an adapter API ?
> > 
> > Yes. Make sense to expose as adapter API also.
> > 
> 
> Correcting myself, Isn't this really an eventdev API ? An adapter API would
> take an adapter id argument which is unnecessary in this case.
> 
> Nikhil

Nikhil,

Are you planning to send the updated version? I would like this get
merged in v17.11 to remove eventdev's EXPERIMENTAL status.