ethdev: prohibit polling stopped queue
Whether it is allowed to call Rx/Tx functions for a stopped queue was undocumented. Some PMDs make this behavior a no-op either by explicitly checking the queue state or by the way how their routines are implemented or HW works. No-op behavior may be convenient for application developers. But it also means that pollers of stopped queues would go all the way down to PMD Rx/Tx routines, wasting cycles. Some PMDs would do a check for the queue state on data path, even though it may never be needed for a particular application. Also, use cases for stopping queues or starting them deferred do not logically require polling stopped queues. Use case 1: a secondary that was polling the queue has crashed, the primary is doing a recovery to free all mbufs. By definition the queue to be restarted is not polled. Use case 2: deferred queue start or queue reconfiguration. The polling thread must be synchronized anyway, because queue start and stop are non-atomic. Prohibit calling Rx/Tx functions on stopped queues. Fixes: 0748be2cf9a2 ("ethdev: queue start and stop") Cc: stable@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
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* rte_eth_rx_queue_setup()), it must call rte_eth_dev_stop() first to stop the
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* device and then do the reconfiguration before calling rte_eth_dev_start()
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* again. The transmit and receive functions should not be invoked when the
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* device is stopped.
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* device or the queue is stopped.
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* Please note that some configuration is not stored between calls to
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* rte_eth_dev_stop()/rte_eth_dev_start(). The following configuration will
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