From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CA11B5F5 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 19:07:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53AF2218EB; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:07:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; s=mesmtp; bh=qohWtVtv7kWZMcWCRCYlJOmKT40QW4cQNPE4PgWXJFc=; b=VXexeE1syRmt c/eDt9/lOguqXxGT5eOlcNs9d5YXviM5d6dCo+9vN1arBOEIl7i3GDKTX7T+YjTe rQHnEFWS+VRn8ob+UNugGZgYdHmI6cJb8pYiie1I+m3nrDvv2/giDEA/9rJWK8k5 Cwe/IW/UBsJrGY88Ruyz3bQDbZDDFzU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-proxy:x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender :x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=qohWtVtv7kWZMcWCRCYlJOmKT40QW4cQNPE4PgWXJ Fc=; b=q/0kUSjPY8Fh15ZEqRNzZcNMD05KEVQTpTonCe7P2DJEDUvbV9JoPEJL5 +jMl8wajORjk0tXFNYgz/A/DJeaql8+UeYNhJahRnfwTPvElbj5SPuBp2+LXRtrp LL95sYUy0vGj0THdHkI604Tx8cBxhrZjNlS/F9LjWAJIFm4sRoNjA6TrJ3Jn6GMW FCMvqT1OiDV+CGOmGe+mQSRKU6+VXGZAitWk/E0zLapCikr/eaj1Hho+EzHo3+CS eZm2+G8njvp13RauFgG0DIdmqqf2KiL8JqED7kqUB8NB4jUrbL85MqurN+LdiPuR 4iPr5oxyzXB4O3Xjp7HzKHr1iggTw== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5F960E4625; Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:07:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Bruce Richardson Cc: "Van Haaren, Harry" , "Laatz, Kevin" , "dev@dpdk.org" , "stephen@networkplumber.org" , "gaetan.rivet@6wind.com" , "shreyansh.jain@nxp.com" Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:07:11 +0200 Message-ID: <2973050.L86uqIDBg1@xps> In-Reply-To: <20181009145601.GA11684@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1535026093-101872-1-git-send-email-ciara.power@intel.com> <2030383.RfJjvT9l4E@xps> <20181009145601.GA11684@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 17:07:16 -0000 09/10/2018 16:56, Bruce Richardson: > 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. For sure, it is a massive work. That's why I agree to have a workaround in the meantime. I did not check the implications in details. The issue with such clean-up of DPDK design is to find someone willing to work on it.