Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/librte_sched: Fix compile with gcc 4.3.4

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2015-11-27 02:26, Qiu, Michael:
> On 2015/11/27 5:29, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2015-11-26 18:49, Michael Qiu:
> >> gcc 4.3.4 does not include "immintrin.h", and will post below error:
> >>     lib/librte_sched/rte_sched.c:56:23: error:
> >>     immintrin.h: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> To avoid this issue, a gcc version check is need and a flag to indicate
> >> vector ablility.
> > [...]
> >> +#if (defined(__ICC) || (__GNUC__ == 4 &&  __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4))
> >> +
> >> +#if defined(__AVX__)
> >>  #include <immintrin.h>
> >> +#define SCHED_VECTOR_ENABLE
> >> +#endif
> >> +
> >> +#else
> >> +
> >> +#include <x86intrin.h>
> >> +#define SCHED_VECTOR_ENABLE
> >> +
> >> +#endif
> > This kind of complication is managed by EAL.
> > I think we should include rte_vect.h.
> 
> As I know here it needs a flag to identify whether the platform support
> AVX, if not it will not use it, so I don't know if we could only simply
> include rte_vect.h?

It's not exclusive.
You can include rte_vect.h and check AVX to define SCHED_VECTOR_ENABLE.