> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 2:50 PM > To: Dumitrescu, Cristian <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Singh, Jasvinder <[email protected]>; > Lu, Wenzhuo <[email protected]>; O'Driscoll, Tim > <[email protected]>; Glynn, Michael J <[email protected]>; > Adrien Mazarguil <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [pull-request] next-tm 17.08 pre-rc1 > > 10/07/2017 15:21, Dumitrescu, Cristian: > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] > > > 10/07/2017 12:55, Dumitrescu, Cristian: > > > > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] > > > > > 2/ Some functions are exposed in the API to query the ops. > > > > > It seems dangerous and useless: > > > > > - rte_eth_dev_tm_ops_get > > > > > - rte_tm_ops_get > > > > > > > > Thomas, hopefully this is a misunderstanding on your side :(((. > > > > > > Don't worry :) > > > > > > > This is a critical point that we debated ad nauseam on this email list > (RFC, V1 > > > -V6) and privately as well. You were included in the conversation, you > also > > > provided feed-back that we incorporated in the code, as documented in > the > > > patchset history log. > > > > > > > > This is simply the mechanism that we (including you) agreed to use for > > > modularizing the DPDK ethdev by adding new functionality in a modular > plug- > > > in way using separate namespace. This is the exact clone of the same > > > mechanism that rte_flow is using and was merged in DPDK release 17.02. > > > Why this change on the fundamentals now? > > > > > > > > Hopefully, it is just misunderstanding. > > > > > > I mean that only the drivers need to get the ops. > > > The applications are using some dedicated functions rte_tm_* , right? > > > So the applications does not need direct ops access with > > > rte_eth_dev_tm_ops_get()? > > > Sorry if it is my misunderstanding. > > > > > > About rte_tm_ops_get, I don't remember why I talked about it. > > > It seems exposed only to drivers. My mistake. No issue there. > > > > OK, so we're good then? > > Not exactly. In my understanding, rte_eth_dev_tm_ops_get() is useless. > Should it be removed then?
Why do you think it is useless? How would the driver get the function specific (i.e. rte_flow, rte_tm, ...) operations structure? I am afraid of reopening a lengthy discussion that we had when the time was right ...
