[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] Infrastructure to support octeontx HW mempool manager

santosh santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com
Tue Jul 18 08:07:43 CEST 2017


On Thursday 13 July 2017 03:02 PM, Santosh Shukla wrote:

> v2:
> (Note: v2 work is based on deprecation notice [1], It's for 17.11)
>
> In order to support octeontx HW mempool manager, the common mempool layer must
> meet below condition.
> - Object start address should be block size (total elem size) aligned.
> - Object must have the physically contiguous address within the pool.
>
> And right now mempool doesn't support both.
>
> Patchset adds infrastrucure to support both condition in a _generic_ way.
> Proposed solution won't effect existing mempool drivers or its functionality.
>
> Summary:
> Introducing capability flag. Now mempool drivers can advertise their
> capabilities to common mempool layer(at the pool creation time).
> Handlers are introduced in order to support capability flag.
>
> Flags:
> * MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG - If flag is set then Detect whether the object
> has the physically contiguous address with in a hugepage.
>
> * MEMPOOL_F_POOL_BLK_SZ_ALIGNED - If flag is set then make sure that object
> addresses are block size aligned.
>
> API:
> Two handles are introduced:
> * rte_mempool_ops_get_capability - advertise mempool manager capability.
> * rte_mempool_ops_update_range - Update start and end address range to
> HW mempool manager.
>
> v2 --> v1 :
> * [01/06] Per deprecation notice [1], Changed rte_mempool 'flag'
>   data type from int to unsigned int and removed flag param
>   from _xmem_size/usage api.
> * [02/06] Incorporated review feedback from v1 [2] (Suggested by Olivier)
> * [03/06] Renamed flag to MEMPOOL_F_CAPA_PHYS_CONTIG
>   and comment reworded. (Suggested by Olivier per v1 [3])
> * [04/06] added new mempool arg in xmem_size/usage. (Suggested by Olivier)
> * [05/06] patch description changed.
>         - Removed elseif brakcet mix
>         - removed sanity check for alignment
>         - removed extra var delta
>         - Removed __rte_unused from xmem_usage/size and added _BLK_SZ_ALIGN check.
>         (Suggeted by Olivier per v1[4])
> * [06/06] Added RTE_FUNC_PTR_OR_RET in rte_mempool_ops_update_ops.
>
> Checkpatch status:
> * WARNING: line over 80 characters
> Noticed for debug messages.
>
> Work history:
> Refer [5].
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] deprecation notice: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/26872/
> [2] v1: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25603/
> [3] v1: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25604/
> [4] v1: http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/25605/
> [5] v1: http://dev.dpdk.narkive.com/Qcu55Lgz/dpdk-dev-patch-0-4-infrastructure-to-support-octeontx-hw-mempool-manager
>
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