[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] net/sfc: convert to the new offload API

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 1/11/2018 8:12 AM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> May be it is too late to suggest a new API functions to ethdev,
> but hopefully if the idea is accepted, it could be applied in the
> current release cycle since these functions are trivial.

Agreed, I think they are OK to get in even late.

> 
> I'm not sure that rte_ethdev_version.map is updated correctly
> since EXPERIMENTAL tag is present and I don't understand how it
> should be handled.
> 
> In general for the transition period from old offload API to the
> new one it would be useful to convert Tx offloads to/from txq_flags
> in rte_eth_dev_info_get() for default_txconf and
> rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get(). Unfortunately it was lost during
> new offload API patches review. However, it would require testing
> for all network PMDs and we decided to follow more conservative
> approach and kept code to fill in txq_flags which should be simply
> removed when txq_flags are removed.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
> 
> Ivan Malov (6):
>   ethdev: add a function to look up Rx offload names
>   ethdev: add a function to look up Tx offload names
>   net/sfc: factor out function to report Rx capabilities
>   net/sfc: convert to the new Rx offload API
>   net/sfc: factor out function to report Tx capabilities
>   net/sfc: convert to the new Tx offload API

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Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>