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* [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
@ 2018-04-17 18:31 Stephen Hemminger
  2018-04-17 18:39 ` David Harton (dharton)
  2018-04-17 20:40 ` Bruce Richardson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2018-04-17 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev

I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
througly by anyone.

Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 18:31 [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit? Stephen Hemminger
@ 2018-04-17 18:39 ` David Harton (dharton)
  2018-04-17 20:01   ` Jim Murphy
  2018-04-17 20:40 ` Bruce Richardson
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: David Harton (dharton) @ 2018-04-17 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger, dev

It is used and tested in production and non-production environments.

Regards,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:31 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
> 
> I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
> Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
> througly by anyone.
> 
> Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 18:39 ` David Harton (dharton)
@ 2018-04-17 20:01   ` Jim Murphy
  2018-04-17 20:46     ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jim Murphy @ 2018-04-17 20:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Harton (dharton); +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, dev

Still used in certain memory constrained environments.


On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:39 AM, David Harton (dharton) <dharton@cisco.com>
wrote:

> It is used and tested in production and non-production environments.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:31 PM
> > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
> >
> > I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
> > Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
> > througly by anyone.
> >
> > Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?
>

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 18:31 [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit? Stephen Hemminger
  2018-04-17 18:39 ` David Harton (dharton)
@ 2018-04-17 20:40 ` Bruce Richardson
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Richardson @ 2018-04-17 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: dev

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:31:07PM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
> Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
> througly by anyone.
> 
> Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?

Distributions no longer support it for the kernel, but they certainly still
support running 32-bit apps. There's still a lot of code out there that
has not been converted to 64-bit, and we need to keep 32-bit DPDK around to
support that for some time.

Regards,
/Bruce

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 20:01   ` Jim Murphy
@ 2018-04-17 20:46     ` Stephen Hemminger
  2018-04-17 21:18       ` Roger B Melton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2018-04-17 20:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jim Murphy; +Cc: David Harton (dharton), dev

On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:01:14 -0700
Jim Murphy <jmurphy@arista.com> wrote:

> Still used in certain memory constrained environments.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:39 AM, David Harton (dharton) <dharton@cisco.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > It is used and tested in production and non-production environments.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >  
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:31 PM
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Subject: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
> > >
> > > I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
> > > Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
> > > througly by anyone.
> > >
> > > Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?  
> >  

Pure 32 bit, or x86-64 instructions and registers used in 32 bit mode (which can be faster).

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 20:46     ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2018-04-17 21:18       ` Roger B Melton
  2018-04-18 17:40         ` Jim Murphy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Roger B Melton @ 2018-04-17 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger, Jim Murphy; +Cc: David Harton (dharton), dev

On 4/17/18 4:46 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:01:14 -0700
> Jim Murphy <jmurphy@arista.com> wrote:
>
>> Still used in certain memory constrained environments.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:39 AM, David Harton (dharton) <dharton@cisco.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It is used and tested in production and non-production environments.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dave
>>>   
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:31 PM
>>>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
>>>> Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
>>>> througly by anyone.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?
>>>   
> Pure 32 bit, or x86-64 instructions and registers used in 32 bit mode (which can be faster).
> .
>

Pure 32bit in our case.  We do not use x32 ABI.

-Roger

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* Re: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
  2018-04-17 21:18       ` Roger B Melton
@ 2018-04-18 17:40         ` Jim Murphy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jim Murphy @ 2018-04-18 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Roger B Melton; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, David Harton (dharton), dev

Same for our case.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Roger B Melton <rmelton@cisco.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/18 4:46 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:01:14 -0700
>> Jim Murphy <jmurphy@arista.com> wrote:
>>
>> Still used in certain memory constrained environments.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:39 AM, David Harton (dharton) <
>>> dharton@cisco.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It is used and tested in production and non-production environments.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 2:31 PM
>>>>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>>>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Retire x86 32 bit?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if x86 32 bit is still useful?
>>>>> Many distributions no longer support it, and not sure if it is tested
>>>>> througly by anyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe time to deprecate it (gradually)?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Pure 32 bit, or x86-64 instructions and registers used in 32 bit mode
>> (which can be faster).
>> .
>>
>>
> Pure 32bit in our case.  We do not use x32 ABI.
>
> -Roger
>
>
>

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