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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: ray.kinsella@intel.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
	Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
	harry.van.haaren@intel.com, david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal/cpuflags: add x86 based cpu flags
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 18:04:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1651663.4herOUoSWf@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200416110040.42819-1-kevin.laatz@intel.com>

16/04/2020 13:00, Kevin Laatz:
> This patch adds CPU flags which will enable the detection of ISA
> features available on more recent x86 based CPUs.
[...]
> --- a/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> +++ b/devtools/libabigail.abignore
> +; Ignore this enum update as it should not be allocated by the application
> +[suppress_type]
> +	type_kind = enum
> +	name = rte_cpu_flag_t
> +	changed_enumerators = RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS

The justification is not correct.
The application is allowed to use RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS in array allocation.
But no API is returning a CPU flag, so the new flags will remain unknown
to the application.

However, there is a behaviour change:
The functions rte_cpu_get_flag_name() and rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled()
will now accept new values, which were previously considered as an error.
Is it an ABI breakage? I would say no.


PS: Who is REALLY maintaining the ABI?
We really miss someone who carefully check all these things,
and take care of the doc and tooling.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-24 11:49 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/17] Add CPU flags Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 doubleword and quadword Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 integer fused multiply-add Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 03/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 conflict detection Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 04/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 byte and word Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector length Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector bit manipulation Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 07/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector bit manipulation 2 Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 08/17] eal/cpuflags: add galois field new instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 09/17] eal/cpuflags: add vector AES Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 10/17] eal/cpuflags: add vector carry-less multiply Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 11/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector neural network instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 12/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 bit algorithms Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 13/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 vector popcount Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/17] eal/cpuflags: add cache line demote Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 15/17] eal/cpuflags: add direct store instructions Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 16/17] eal/cpuflags: add direct store instructions 64B Kevin Laatz
2020-03-24 11:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 17/17] eal/cpuflags: add avx512 two register intersection Kevin Laatz
2020-03-25  8:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/17] Add CPU flags David Marchand
2020-03-25 11:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/cpuflags: add x86 based cpu flags Kevin Laatz
2020-03-27 12:24   ` David Marchand
2020-03-27 13:18     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-27 15:04       ` David Marchand
2020-03-27 13:44     ` Neil Horman
2020-03-27 14:15       ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-27 14:32         ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-27 14:36           ` Ray Kinsella
2020-03-27 15:19             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-30 12:15   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-16 10:08     ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-04-16 11:00     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-25 16:04       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-04-27  9:22         ` Kinsella, Ray
2020-04-27  9:27         ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-27  9:31           ` Laatz, Kevin
2020-04-27  9:35             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-27 10:08               ` Laatz, Kevin
2020-04-27 12:31           ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27 13:58             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-29 11:22               ` Neil Horman
2020-04-30  7:59                 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-28 12:40       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Kevin Laatz
2020-04-28 16:39         ` Ray Kinsella
2020-04-28 18:11           ` Laatz, Kevin
2020-04-28 19:55             ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-28 19:58           ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-04-29 11:39           ` David Marchand
2020-04-30 10:02             ` Ray Kinsella
2020-05-07 13:00               ` Thomas Monjalon

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