From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
<bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
"Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"Sunil Kumar Kori" <skori@marvell.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, "Thomas Monjalon" <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/3] eal: mark API's as stable
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:55:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9F6A4@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8x1E4mcLwoHUhB1C=R5wjXq0aY1TRXPjwUhH1oj8qGu_Q@mail.gmail.com>
> From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2024 09.59
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 8:10 PM Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >
> > The API's in ethtool from before 23.11 should be marked stable.
>
> EAL* ?
>
> > Should probably include the trace api's but that is more complex change.
>
> On the trace API itself it should be ok.
No!
Trace must remain experimental until controlled by a meson option, e.g. "enable_trace", whereby trace can be completely disabled and omitted from the compiled application/libraries/drivers at build time.
<rant>
Furthermore, I would prefer having trace as a separate library, not part of the EAL bloat.
The EAL should - as its name says - provide hardware and O/S abstractions, not a collection of features.
</rant>
> The problem is with the tracepoint variables themselves, and I don't
> think we should mark them stable.
Agree. They are only there - as a middle step - to assist generating the trace output, so I don't see any benefit in marking them stable.
We could introduce a means to mark their trace output format as stable; but only if some trace output processors actually benefit from this. And it introduces extra work for maintaining trace points and adding new trace points.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-05 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-04 18:08 Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-04 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] eal: make rte_cpu_get_intrinsics_support stable Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-04 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] eal: mark rte_lcore_register_usage_cb stable Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-04 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] eal: mark rte_memzone_max_get/set stable Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-05 6:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] eal: mark API's as stable Morten Brørup
2024-09-05 7:58 ` David Marchand
2024-09-05 8:55 ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2024-09-05 9:03 ` David Marchand
2024-09-05 9:44 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-05 14:01 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-05 14:18 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-08 23:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-06 8:54 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-09-06 10:04 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-06 14:12 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-09-06 14:42 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-09 4:48 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-06 9:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-09-06 9:48 ` David Marchand
2024-09-06 11:00 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-09-06 13:11 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-06 14:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-09-09 4:46 ` Jerin Jacob
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