From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattunuru@marvell.com>,
Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] eal: add manual probing option
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:07:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3503128.aV6nBDHxoP@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b82a6cd-a286-5a5e-7cef-6d16a4355e06@u256.net>
04/02/2020 11:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> On 03/02/2020 23:21, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 03/02/2020 06:16, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula:
> >> @David Marchand @thomas@monjalon.net
> >>
> >> Ping?
> >>
> >> Are there any more changes required for this patch? It's been in queue since last October.
> >
> > Sorry we have not decided whether it is a good idea or not.
> >
> > All changes related to probing are very sensitive,
> > and we know a big refactoring would be better than stacking
> > more and more options and corner cases.
> >
> > As we are busy with ABI stability stuff, we did not allocate
> > enough time to properly think about this feature.
> > Please accept our apologies, and let's consider it as
> > a high priority for 20.05 cycle.
> >
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> This is unfortunate. I pushed Pavan to accept an alternative implementation of this functionality that was less obtrusive, to make the integration smoother. I took care to alleviate those risks from the common path.
>
> The big refactoring is needed yes, but considering the current path I'm not seeing it happen in 20.05. If that means taking this patch as-is in 20.05 for Marvell users, I'm not sure much is gained from waiting 3 months, except minimal risk avoidance.
Yes, life is full of bad decisions and consequences.
I still think there is a risk in adding new user expectations,
and maintaining some code to workaround unknown issues.
The real question here is to know why this patch?
Is it to workaround a broken driver?
Or to workaround a broken design in EAL and bus drivers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-04 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-23 11:56 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] bus/pci: probe PCI devices in whitelisted order vattunuru
2019-09-25 6:41 ` Slava Ovsiienko
2019-09-25 9:07 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-09-26 4:15 ` Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
2019-09-26 8:04 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-09-26 9:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
2019-09-30 12:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] eal: add manual probing option Gaetan Rivet
2019-09-30 17:51 ` Aaron Conole
2019-10-01 7:28 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-10-01 12:57 ` Aaron Conole
2019-09-30 18:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-01 9:10 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-10-01 9:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-10-01 14:09 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-10-01 14:26 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-10-03 7:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Gaetan Rivet
2019-10-04 12:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Gaetan Rivet
2019-10-07 1:27 ` Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
2019-10-23 8:44 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-10-25 11:59 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-10-25 12:50 ` Gaëtan Rivet
2019-10-25 13:24 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-10-25 14:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Gaetan Rivet
2019-10-25 15:01 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-10-25 15:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Gaetan Rivet
2019-10-25 15:51 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-22 16:51 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2020-01-23 9:20 ` Gaetan Rivet
2020-01-23 9:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] " Gaetan Rivet
2020-02-03 5:16 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2020-02-03 22:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-04 10:03 ` Gaetan Rivet
2020-02-04 11:07 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-02-04 12:43 ` Gaetan Rivet
2020-02-04 15:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-04 16:02 ` Gaetan Rivet
2020-02-10 14:51 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-10 15:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-10 16:33 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-04-03 3:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [v1 1/1] examples/l2fwd: add cmdline option for forwarding port info vattunuru
2020-04-03 12:51 ` Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
2020-04-05 3:49 ` Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
2020-04-05 3:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] [v2 " vattunuru
2020-04-06 9:32 ` Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
2020-04-26 21:19 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27 7:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " pbhagavatula
2020-04-27 9:19 ` Sunil Kumar Kori
2020-04-27 9:36 ` Andrzej Ostruszka [C]
2020-04-27 10:14 ` Sunil Kumar Kori
2020-04-27 16:38 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2020-04-27 16:49 ` Sunil Kumar Kori
2020-04-27 18:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " pbhagavatula
2020-04-28 5:54 ` Sunil Kumar Kori
2020-05-01 14:00 ` Varghese, Vipin
2020-05-01 15:14 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2020-05-02 4:34 ` Varghese, Vipin
2020-05-11 0:23 ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2020-05-24 16:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-05-25 9:29 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-07-04 13:36 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-05 12:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-04 16:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v7] eal: add manual probing option Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2023-06-14 19:33 ` [dpdk-dev] " Stephen Hemminger
2023-06-26 16:12 ` Gaëtan Rivet
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