From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A8C1B57F for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 16:56:16 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by orsmga105.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 09 Oct 2018 07:56:15 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.54,360,1534834800"; d="scan'208";a="86963437" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.107]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 09 Oct 2018 07:56:03 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:56:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:56:01 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: "Van Haaren, Harry" , "Laatz, Kevin" , "dev@dpdk.org" , "stephen@networkplumber.org" , "gaetan.rivet@6wind.com" , "shreyansh.jain@nxp.com" Message-ID: <20181009145601.GA11684@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1535026093-101872-1-git-send-email-ciara.power@intel.com> <4034734.dNxXkqf0MS@xps> <2030383.RfJjvT9l4E@xps> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2030383.RfJjvT9l4E@xps> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/10] introduce telemetry library X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:56:17 -0000 On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:41:10PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > I think it is not clean. > We should really split EAL in two parts: > - low level routines > - high level init. > > About telemetry, you can find any workaround, but it must be temporary. > In fairness, though, splitting up EAL is a fairly significant piece of work to just throw out there as a suggestion to people! Have you investigated what it would take for that, or looked at the implications of it? It's probably not something that one can just sit and do in the spur of the moment. Regards, /Bruce