[PATCH 00/10] port: implement output port non-blocking behavior

[Thomas Monjalon]

06/08/2022 00:00, Cristian Dumitrescu:
> In case of blocking behavior, the output port retries sending the
> packets that could not be sent successfully. The retry can take place
> potentially forever in case the Ethernet device or the ring consumer
> are down, which leads to deadlock.
> 
> In case of the non-blocking behavior introduced by this series, the
> packets that could not be sent successfully are dropped and the
> associated drop statistics counters are incremented.
> 
> Depends-on: series-24205 ("net/softnic: replace the legacy pipeline with SWX pipeline")
> 
> Cristian Dumitrescu (10):
>   port: add output port packet drop statistics couters
>   port: adjust the sink port counters
>   port: rework the Ethernet device output port behavior to non-blocking
>   port: free buffered packets on Ethernet device output port free
>   port: prevent unnecessary flush for the Ethernet device output port
>   port: rework the ring output port behavior to non-blocking
>   port: free buffered packets on ring output port free
>   port: prevent unnecessary flush for the ring output port
>   examples/pipeline: print the output port packet drop counters
>   net/softnic: print the output port packet drop counters

Applied, thanks.