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From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile <Narcisa.Vasile@microsoft.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Kadam, Pallavi" <pallavi.kadam@intel.com>,
	"Dmitry Malloy (MESHCHANINOV)" <dmitrym@microsoft.com>,
	Omar Cardona <ocardona@microsoft.com>,
	Harini Ramakrishnan <Harini.Ramakrishnan@microsoft.com>,
	Khoa To <khot@microsoft.com>, Jie Zhou <jizh@microsoft.com>,
	Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@nvidia.com>,
	"ranjit. menon" <ranjit.menon@intel.com>,
	Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Importing DATA into the application
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 13:06:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208130613.1fb8d6f8@sovereign> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3322289.gH0BhIt9ao@thomas>

On Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:47:15 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 08/12/2020 08:03, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile:
[...]
> > However, there are a few issues to consider:
> > * We cannot add __declspec(dllimport)  when declaring per_lcore__lcore_id for example. We cannot have both __thread and __declspec(dllimport)  (can't import thread local variables).  
> 
> We cannot export a TLS variable? It looks to be a serious issue.
> 
> 
> > Have you discussed/run into these issues before? Let me know what you think.  
> 
> Curiously it has never been discussed in 2 years of DPDK porting to Windows.
> Thanks for raising.

Oh, it has been discussed. I've even made a demo about TLS variables in DLLs
with GCC, which supports them, albeit with a penalty, and Clang, which
doesn't support them. At the time, we agreed that having static linking would
be enough as a first step, now we're past it.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-08  7:03 Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile
2020-12-08  7:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-12-08 10:06   ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]

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