Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] service cores: cover letter

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

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:18:33 +0000
> From: "Van Haaren, Harry" <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> CC: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com"
>  <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>, "Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>,
>  "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] service cores: cover letter
> 
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 11:09 PM
> > To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com; Wiles, Keith <keith.wiles@intel.com>;
> > Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] service cores: cover letter
> > 
> > 07/07/2017 18:41, Harry van Haaren:
> > > v4:
> > > - Range of fixes as suggested by Jerin
> > > - Improved unit tests, ensuring ex-service cores become available to app
> > > - Added functions to EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map files (Thomas)
> > > - Added @warning experimental notes to Doxygen API documentation (Thomas)
> > > - Various smaller fixes / cleanups
> > > - See commit notes for details
> > 
> > I feel we need to wait approval from some reviewers, at least from Jerin
> > who was very active on this series.
> 
> Agreed that more reviewing eyes would be good.
> 
> 
> > It means it misses the first release candidate, and it is a problem
> > because this feature is updating the core.
> 
> Correct service cores does update the core, however a review of the code-paths
> taken if the service cores -s switch is not used shows that it will have almost
> no impact on the EAL code path.
> 
> 
> > Naive question: do we really want it in 17.08?
> 
> I think merging in 17.08 allow us to progress on integrating services and DPDK, so I see value in including in this release.

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