[PATCH 1/2] usertools/rss: add driver abstractions
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Nov 23 00:27:24 CET 2023
22/11/2023 10:37, fengchengwen:
> On 2023/11/22 16:28, Robin Jarry wrote:
> > Stephen Hemminger, Nov 21, 2023 at 18:27:
> >> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:51:19 +0530
> >> Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > IMO, That may be too much of non-productive work to save a couple of
> >> > lines(seed array) of duplicate code between c and python.
> >>
> >> But the tool is incomplete right now, it doesn't cover all the drivers.
> >
> > I agree that having a standard API or mechanism for drivers to expose their default redirection table size and hash seed key would be nice. The script could have a dynamically generated section that is populated during the build based on selected drivers.
> >
> > However, it would make the python script dependant on it and it would not be a standalone tool anymore. This is not a blocking issue but something to keep in mind.
>
> The usertools/dpdk-pmdinfo.py will parse dpdk elf to get some information, We could do same thing in here.
We can imagine different things to avoid listing few RSS keys in this script.
For now, this series is an improvement, so I take it.
Feel free to follow-up with more enhancements.
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