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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	stephen@networkplumber.org, Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, viacheslavo@mellanox.com,
	edwin.verplanke@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/3] ethdev: add the API for getting trace information
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:45:37 +0200
Message-ID: <8407813.BflZntU1Eb@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb450632-013a-99c1-9946-1b06e8d8b006@ashroe.eu>

13/08/2019 14:51, Ray Kinsella:
> On 13/08/2019 04:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:06:10 +0800
> > Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Enhance the PMD to support retrieving trace information like
> >> Rx/Tx burst selection etc.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang@intel.com>
[...]
> >>  int
> >> +rte_eth_trace_info_get(uint16_t port_id, uint16_t queue_id,
> >> +		       enum rte_eth_trace type, char *buf, int sz)
[...]
> > The bigger problem is that this information is like a log message
> > and unstructured, which makes it device specific and useless for automation.
> 
> IMHO - this is much better implemented as a capability bitfield, that
> can be queried.

Now I see where this idea comes from.
Ray, Stephen, structuring shuch information is really a bad idea.
The Rx/Tx functions are not like capabilities, they are full of smart
tricks written by brillant engineers. Please do not try to put ideas
in some categories. We will have more and more new types of optimization
and ideas when the hardware will evolve.

And, more importantly, there is no need of automation or processing
with this information.



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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-13  3:06 [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/3] show the Rx/Tx burst description field Haiyue Wang
2019-08-13  3:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/3] ethdev: add the API for getting trace information Haiyue Wang
2019-08-13  3:24   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-13  4:37     ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-13  9:57     ` David Marchand
2019-08-13 11:21       ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-13 12:51     ` Ray Kinsella
2019-09-06 14:21       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-07  2:42         ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-09 11:23           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-09 12:40             ` Bruce Richardson
2019-09-09 12:50               ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-09 13:17                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10  4:36                   ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10  8:06                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10  8:37                       ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10  9:14                         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 11:41                           ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:00                             ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:17                               ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:33                                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:35                                   ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 14:19                           ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:03                             ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:18                               ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:36                                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:38                                   ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:06                     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:21                       ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-09-10 15:35                         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-09-10 15:37                           ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-10-26 16:45       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-10-27  4:10         ` Wang, Haiyue
2019-08-15  9:07     ` Ray Kinsella
2019-08-13  3:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/3] testpmd: show the Rx/Tx burst description Haiyue Wang
2019-08-13  3:06 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 3/3] net/ice: support the Rx/Tx burst description trace Haiyue Wang

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