Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/15] eventdev: remove unneeded dependencies

[Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 03:40:41PM +0000, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
> Since eventdev uses event structures rather than working directly on
> mbufs, there is no actual dependencies on the mbuf library. The
> inclusion of an mbuf pointer element inside the event itself does not
> require the inclusion of the mbuf header file. Similarly the pci
> header is not needed, but following their removal, rte_memory.h is
> needed for the definition of the __rte_cache_aligned macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile       | 1 -
>  lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h | 5 +++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile b/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
> index dac0663..396e5ec 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile
> @@ -52,6 +52,5 @@ EXPORT_MAP := rte_eventdev_version.map
>  
>  # library dependencies
>  DEPDIRS-y += lib/librte_eal
> -DEPDIRS-y += lib/librte_mbuf
>  
>  include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.lib.mk
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> index e1bd05f..c2f9310 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eventdev/rte_eventdev.h
> @@ -244,8 +244,9 @@ extern "C" {
>  #endif
>  
>  #include <rte_common.h>
> -#include <rte_pci.h>
> -#include <rte_mbuf.h>
> +#include <rte_memory.h>
> +
> +struct rte_mbuf; /* we just use mbuf pointers; no need to include rte_mbuf.h */

This "struct rte_mbuf" reference is not present in dpdk-next-eventdev tree.
Are you planning to rebase to dpdk-next-eventdev?

>  
>  /* Event device capability bitmap flags */
>  #define RTE_EVENT_DEV_CAP_QUEUE_QOS           (1ULL << 0)
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>