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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/6] eventdev: define southbound driver
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:34:19 +0000
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 11:19:51AM +0000, Nipun Gupta wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jerin Jacob
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 14:55
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Cc: thomas.monjalon@6wind.com; bruce.richardson@intel.com; Hemant
> > Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; gage.eads@intel.com;
> > harry.van.haaren@intel.com; Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] eventdev: define southbound driver
> > interface
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h     |  38 +++++
> >  lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_pmd.h | 294
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 332 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev_pmd.h
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > +typedef int (*eventdev_port_link_t)(void *port,
> > +		const uint8_t queues[], const uint8_t priorities[],
> > +		uint16_t nb_links);
> 
> I think having event device as input parameter to the port_link & port_unlink will
> be required so that queue configuration can be fetched from the event device.
> 
Or each port structure in each driver can have a pointer back to its
containing eventdev. That is what we have done in our SW eventdev
driver.

/Bruce