From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com (mail-wm0-f48.google.com [74.125.82.48]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7445A961C for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 14:47:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f48.google.com with SMTP id n129so228998477wmn.1 for ; Thu, 19 May 2016 05:47:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fjSDGdn+E0aRYrivvtKORk/HjORsv0SnzSNarAfnAro=; b=Iz7BTvTm8g49N2cN6KAKbH1SteDec7hlPRTO6rXryXf0BzUv2Qx9o7fohSBww/VTAw ARoVvs+J+JIBnpClc5xyD/XxY19IEnyBwLylTjHKM/KtA3FAR5ChAT8bGkxbkmkyQ9gc lOMYACvJIPL6LHDhos1o6g4hfDHRzSj77qH4W233SOvwF4jrunMq3FWn4wDI6xA+tMpQ pDQMH/eS1dey4aNbV+PXZXcFHsWqTaGComy/nDVdvA+O1HPCK9AuCypkolbmQTcpgbBG M7CxBlP34alLez4tgz2Nb1I9hb4+CxcJTPObS4MF4UknzmO7voWvvBPkbK1DXin4RDHC dS5Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fjSDGdn+E0aRYrivvtKORk/HjORsv0SnzSNarAfnAro=; b=E0pWw8adKkiHEu0kvFRGIKvaV7XvPkXDb0mPw3ZIhnhubW9XMcT0Llk2tljUfIj24N lRf+vAIZdZIO6851+x4A/2pQu6+PBzaZ/QWFNMzMk7dw057vkrPlL5BjmdwSUXBiJqyh 7DboNdAq/zLOnTJUzxZ84XKJaXx0S21NjULEOK3dUn5Jhej5mbxqkvrOU/6E4/l1apdx 4wVAs33N2Ie5Etg17BTw7rD6veh/W4oQtiqQYnxljGUXA0hkpwmDdCX4DYp/S6QHePdN 0aIIBIKz+smnNV9FheLSuMndoU9nW5CeEXMrk3UIOCFnb6UWRBs9xu75m7+B5BJlcHKA xNmw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FVk3yLIOCPYz0XXKnS7aEW1J229K2UrZPhgsguQ5NJLlqA1Ul0J0gL7JS8yKMgd9NVF X-Received: by 10.28.137.14 with SMTP id l14mr13178397wmd.64.1463662046123; Thu, 19 May 2016 05:47:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (guy78-3-82-239-227-177.fbx.proxad.net. [82.239.227.177]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t3sm19303689wmf.20.2016.05.19.05.47.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 19 May 2016 05:47:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Olivier Matz Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, keith.wiles@intel.com Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 14:47:14 +0200 Message-ID: <36612895.rbhkJEDisP@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1463569496-31086-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> References: <1460629199-32489-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> <1463569496-31086-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 00/35] mempool: rework memory allocation X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:47:26 -0000 2016-05-18 13:04, Olivier Matz: > This series is a rework of mempool. For those who don't want to read > all the cover letter, here is a sumary: > > - it is not possible to allocate large mempools if there is not enough > contiguous memory, this series solves this issue > - introduce new APIs with less arguments: "create, populate, obj_init" > - allow to free a mempool > - split code in smaller functions, will ease the introduction of ext_handler > - remove test-pmd anonymous mempool creation > - remove most of dom0-specific mempool code > - opens the door for a eal_memory rework: we probably don't need large > contiguous memory area anymore, working with pages would work. > > This breaks the ABI as it was indicated in the deprecation for 16.04. > The API stays almost the same, no modification is needed in examples app > or in test-pmd. Only kni and mellanox drivers are slightly modified. Applied with a small change you sent me to fix mlx build in the middle of the patchset and update the removed Xen files in MAINTAINERS file. Thanks for the big rework!