Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/4] examples: add performance-thread

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

2015-12-11 08:31, Betts, Ian:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] 
> >Applied, thanks
> >The patch to mark it experimental and disable it has also been applied.
> >The huge codebase has been integrated to give visibility.
> >We need to discuss it more and decide how to continue (as a lib or drop).
> 
> Thanks Thomas,
> When you analyze the "huge" codebase it breaks into 3 parts: 
> 
> 1. A common l-thread subsystem ( ~2Kloc ) 
> 2. An l3fwd derived example ( ~2Kloc)
> 3. An hello world example pthread shim ( ~700loc )
> 
> If there is interest in lightweight threads the hope/expectation is that the l-thread
> subsystem would become an rte library. On the scale of things I would describe 
> it as an average sized lib in DPDK terms.

Yes, if it gains some interest and fit in the desired scope of DPDK,
it may become a library.
 
> As for the examples, obviously there needs to be some example, but perhaps 
> it is not so critical if they are retained in the present form, at least this is the only
> place I can see to save lines of code.

Yes. Maybe we can make some efforts to shrink the size of examples (generally)
to make them easy to maintain and didactic.