[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] net/virtio: support to turn on/off the traffic flow

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:40:17PM +0800, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
> Current dpdk code virtio_dev_stop only disables interrupt and marks link down,
> When it is invoked, tx/rx traffic flows still work. This is a strange behavior.
> The patchset supports the switch of flow by calling virtio_dev_start/stop.
> 
> The implementation refers to vhost pmd.

That's a difference story. Vhost pmd uses 2 vars to track the
status, whereas you are using only one here. So why not
setting/clearing "started" at dev_start/stop, respectively?
Then we can check "started" at Rx/Tx functions.

BTW, why does it have to be atomic?

	--yliu
> 
> Zhiyong Yang (2):
>   net/virtio: add data elements to turn on/off traffic flow
>   net/virtio: support to turn on/off the traffic flow
> 
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c           | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.h              |  1 +
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.c             | 12 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx.h             |  6 +++++
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple.c      |  4 +++
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple_neon.c |  5 +++-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_rxtx_simple_sse.c  |  5 +++-
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user_ethdev.c      |  1 +
>  8 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
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