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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ethdev: add buffered tx api
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:06:42 +0100
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2016-03-09 16:35, Kulasek, TomaszX:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > > +void
> > > +rte_eth_count_unsent_packet_callback(struct rte_mbuf **pkts, uint16_t
> > unsent,
> > > +		void *userdata);
> > 
> > What about rte_eth_tx_buffer_default_callback as name?
> 
> This function is used now as default to count silently dropped packets and update error counter in tx_buffer structure. When I remove error counter and set silent drop as default behavior, it's better to have two callbacks to choice:
> 
> 1) silently dropping packets (set as default)
> 2) as defined above to dropping with counter.
> 
> Maybe better is to define two default callbacks while many applications can still update it's internal error counter,
> So IHMO these names are more descriptive:
> 
> rte_eth_tx_buffer_drop_callback
> rte_eth_tx_buffer_count_callback
> 
> What you think?

I think you are right about the name.

Are you sure providing a "count" callback is needed?
Is it just to refactor the examples?