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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@amd.com, kai.ji@intel.com,
	brian.dooley@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: add thread-safe crc api
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 14:36:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241202143607.40555941@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241001181150.43506-2-arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>

On Tue,  1 Oct 2024 19:11:48 +0100
Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com> wrote:

> The current net CRC API is not thread-safe, this patch
> solves this by adding another, thread-safe API functions.

Couldn't the old API be made threadsafe with TLS?

> This API is also safe to use across multiple processes,
> yet with limitations on max-simd-bitwidth, which will be checked only by
> the process that created the CRC context; all other processes will use
> the same CRC function when used with the same CRC context.
> It is an undefined behavior when process binaries are compiled
> with different SIMD capabilities when the same CRC context is used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>

The API/ABI can't change for 25.03, do you want to support both?
Or wait until 25.11?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-02 22:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-01 18:11 [PATCH v2 0/3] " Arkadiusz Kusztal
2024-10-01 18:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Arkadiusz Kusztal
2024-10-01 21:44   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-02  8:28     ` Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
2024-10-02  7:42   ` David Marchand
2024-10-02  8:41     ` Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
2024-10-02  9:01       ` David Marchand
2024-10-02  9:16         ` Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
2024-10-08  3:42   ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-10-08 20:51     ` Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
2024-10-09  1:03       ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-10-09  7:48         ` Kusztal, ArkadiuszX
2024-10-09  9:11           ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-12-02 22:36   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-10-01 18:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] crypto/qat: use process safe " Arkadiusz Kusztal
2024-10-01 18:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] test/crc: replace thread-unsafe api functions Arkadiusz Kusztal
2024-12-02 22:33   ` Stephen Hemminger

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