[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eventdev: add event adapter for ethernet Rx queues

[Rao, Nikhil]

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