Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-25 Thread Van Haaren, Harry
Hi All, Service Cores RFC, more details and discussion > Though I think both PMD/core libraries and app layer might be interested in > that: i.e. > app might also have some background processing tasks, that might need to be > run > on several cores (or core slices). Thanks everybody for

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-17 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin
Hi Bruce, > > > > Hi Konstantin, > > Thanks for the feedback, the specific detail of which I'll perhaps leave > for Harry to reply to or include in a later version of this patchset. > However, from a higher level, I think the big difference in what we > envisage compared to what you suggest in y

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:47:52PM +, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote: > Hi Harry, > I had a look, my questions/comments below. > From my perspective it looks like an attempt to introduce simple scheduling > library inside DPDK. > Though some things left unclear from my perspective, but probably I

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-17 Thread Ananyev, Konstantin
Hi Harry, I had a look, my questions/comments below. >From my perspective it looks like an attempt to introduce simple scheduling >library inside DPDK. Though some things left unclear from my perspective, but probably I just misunderstood your intentions here. Thanks Konstantin > > This patch

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-06 Thread Jerin Jacob
-Original Message- > Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 15:48:02 + > From: "Van Haaren, Harry" > To: Jerin Jacob > CC: "dev@dpdk.org" , "Richardson, Bruce" > , "hemant.agra...@nxp.com" > , "nipun.gu...@nxp.com" , > "Vangati, Narender" , "Eads, Gage" > > Subject: RE: [RFC] service core concept

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-05 Thread Van Haaren, Harry
> From: Jerin Jacob [mailto:jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com] > > Hi Harry, > > > > Overall it looks good. Some initial comments Off to a good start! Replies inline, in general I think we're on the same page. This RFC was pretty "fresh", mostly to check if the community agrees with the general c

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-04 Thread Jerin Jacob
-Original Message- > Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 12:05:54 +0530 > From: Jerin Jacob > To: Harry van Haaren > Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richard...@intel.com, hemant.agra...@nxp.com, > nipun.gu...@nxp.com, narender.vang...@intel.com, gage.e...@intel.com > Subject: Re: [RFC] service core concept he

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-03 Thread Jerin Jacob
-Original Message- > Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:29:21 +0100 > From: Harry van Haaren > To: dev@dpdk.org > CC: Harry van Haaren , > bruce.richard...@intel.com, hemant.agra...@nxp.com, nipun.gu...@nxp.com, > narender.vang...@intel.com, jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com, > gage.e...@intel.com >

[dpdk-dev] [RFC] service core concept header implementation

2017-05-03 Thread Harry van Haaren
This patch adds a service header to DPDK EAL. This header is an RFC for a mechanism to allow DPDK components request a callback function to be invoked. The application can set the number of service cores, and a coremask for each particular services. The implementation of this functionality in rte_