The setup and configuration of the PMD is not performance sensitive,
but is not thread safe either. It is possible that the multiple
read/writes during PMD setup and configuration could be corrupted
in a multi-thread environment. Since this is not performance
sensitive, the developer can choose to add their own layer to provide
thread-safe setup and configuration. It is expected that, in most
applications, the initial configuration of the network ports would be
done by a single thread at startup.
In the case of exception on the event queue, the event queue and
corresponding Rx/Tx queue should be restarted in the Rx/Tx queue
polling context. These operations require access to the device
control which should be serialized. The device level lock will do
the job.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Moreton <amoreton@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Enable the PMD by default on supported configurations.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Moreton <amoreton@solarflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
