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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] mempool: get the mempool capability
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:37:40AM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> Allow mempool to advertise its capability.
> A handler been introduced called rte_mempool_ops_get_capabilities.
> - Upon ->get_capabilities call, mempool driver will advertise
> capability by updating to 'mp->flags'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c           |  5 +++++
>  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.h           | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_ops.c       | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_version.map |  7 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> index f95c01c00..d518c53de 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> @@ -529,6 +529,11 @@ rte_mempool_populate_default(struct rte_mempool *mp)
>  	if (mp->nb_mem_chunks != 0)
>  		return -EEXIST;
>  
> +	/* Get mempool capability */
> +	ret = rte_mempool_ops_get_capabilities(mp);
> +	if (ret)
> +		RTE_LOG(DEBUG, MEMPOOL, "get_capability not supported for %s\n", mp->name);
> +

there is probably a checkpatch error here (80 cols)

> +/**
> + * @internal wrapper for mempool_ops get_capabilities callback.
> + *
> + * @param mp
> + *   Pointer to the memory pool.
> + * @return
> + *   - 0: Success; Capability updated to mp->flags
> + *   - <0: Error; code of capability function.
> + */
> +int
> +rte_mempool_ops_get_capabilities(struct rte_mempool *mp);
> +

What does "Capability updated to mp->flags" mean?

Why not having instead:
 int rte_mempool_ops_get_capabilities(struct rte_mempool *mp,
     unsigned int *flags);

?