[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 03/12] virtio: reinitialize the device in configure callback

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote:
> @@ -1344,6 +1347,7 @@ virtio_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  {
>  	const struct rte_eth_rxmode *rxmode = &dev->data->dev_conf.rxmode;
>  	struct virtio_hw *hw = dev->data->dev_private;
> +	uint64_t req_features;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, "configure");
> @@ -1353,6 +1357,14 @@ virtio_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	req_features = VIRTIO_PMD_GUEST_FEATURES;
> +	/* if request features changed, reinit the device */
> +	if (req_features != hw->req_guest_features) {
> +		ret = virtio_init_device(dev, req_features);
> +		if (ret < 0)
> +			return ret;
> +	}

Why do you have to reset virtio here? This doesn't make too much sense
to me.

IIUC, you want to make sure those TSO related features being unset at
init time, and enable it (by doing reset) when it's asked to be enabled
(by rte_eth_dev_configure)?

Why not always setting those features? We could do the actual offloads
when:

- those features have been negoiated

- they are enabled through rte_eth_dev_configure

With that, I think we could avoid the reset here?

	--yliu