From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BE1A0547; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2509841225; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:44:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from shelob.oktetlabs.ru (shelob.oktetlabs.ru [91.220.146.113]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085094120D for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:44:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.38.17] (aros.oktetlabs.ru [192.168.38.17]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by shelob.oktetlabs.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4BEB07F563; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:44:49 +0300 (MSK) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 shelob.oktetlabs.ru 4BEB07F563 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=oktetlabs.ru; s=default; t=1629992689; bh=cMw8wdmVK69WCMsYo8fsyjhXPowkQdWjHZ6mPdNMYao=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=akSH/Lzc/QWFL8xdRgIe3JfsJwdBinVemqyrguxONiiPaSYV3FoENzQeKsRa2du8A xyPIHiO4g7mnd7Y6d0G6R1dAM7yH8DudtRHtKMn5z6GDPJJZvhZstE4czxOcBSEB1g 5SzgD741yDW4bVmv5Xn/Gi7u55i03BCO/5QCdeNs= To: Bruce Richardson , Akhil Goyal Cc: Ferruh Yigit , Ray Kinsella , "dev@dpdk.org" , Konstantin Ananyev , Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran References: <20210826103500.2172550-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> From: Andrew Rybchenko Organization: OKTET Labs Message-ID: <8b3845d2-7a72-c6f0-8e1a-d428bc2bbfb8@oktetlabs.ru> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:44:49 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH] doc: announce library refactor for ABI improvement X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 8/26/21 2:04 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Akhil Goyal wrote: >>> Target is to reduce the public interface surface to improve the ABI >>> stability and this is preparation for the longer term stable ABI >>> support. >>> >>> Mainly device abstraction layer libraries are impacted because they have >>> two interfaces, one is public interface to the applications and other is >>> internal interface to the drivers. Some driver/internal interface >>> structures/symbols are in the public interface by mistake, this work is >>> to clean them. >>> Also some libraries has 'static inline' functions for performance >>> reasons (like ones in the ethdev), this work plans to split the >>> structures and hide the part that is not used by inline functions. >>> >>> The need of the work for the stable ABI already discussed and planned by >>> the DPDK technical board: >>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214662.html >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit >>> --- >> Acked-by: Akhil Goyal > > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson > Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko