Re: Survey for final decision about per-port offload API

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

01/04/2018 03:51, Zhang, Qi Z:
> > There are some discussions about a specific part of the offload API:
> > 	"To enable per-port offload, the offload should be set on both
> > 	device configuration and queue setup."
> > 
> > It means the application must repeat the port offload flags in
> > rte_eth_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads and rte_eth_[rt]xconf.offloads, when calling
> > respectively rte_eth_dev_configure() and rte_eth_[rt]x_queue_setup for each
> > queue.
> > 
> > The PMD must check if there is mismatch, i.e. a port offload not repeated in
> > queue setup.
> > There is a proposal to do this check at ethdev level:
> > 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/094023.html
> > 
> > It was also proposed to relax the API and allow "forgetting" port offloads in
> > queue offloads:
> > 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-March/092978.html
> > 
> > It would mean the offloads applied to a queue result of OR operation:
> > 	rte_eth_conf.[rt]xmode.offloads | rte_eth_[rt]xconf.offloads
> > 
> > 1/ Do you agree with above API change?
> > 
> > 
> > If we agree with this change, we need to update the documentation and
> > remove the checks in PMDs.
> 
> Do you mean we will move offload check from PMD to ethdev, 
> or just remove specific check in each PMD
> or it is not in the scope of this vote?

By "remove the checks", I mean removing the checks in each PMD
for the port offloads repeated in queue offloads.