From: Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Andrey Vesnovaty <andreyv@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/1] add flow shared action API
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 07:20:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM6PR05MB5176E4139359704881E2CDB9DB6D0@AM6PR05MB5176.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200701172409.6b82bd6e@hermes.lan>
Hi Stephen,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 3:24 AM
> To: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Ferruh Yigit
> <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>;
> Ori Kam <orika@mellanox.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Andrey Vesnovaty
> <andreyv@mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/1] add flow shared action API
>
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 16:32:57 +0300
> Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > +
> > +void *
> > +rte_flow_shared_action_create(uint16_t port_id,
> > + const struct rte_flow_action *action,
> > + struct rte_flow_error *error)
> > +{
>
> NAK
>
> API's that return void * (opaque pointer) are dangerous and should
> not be added to DPDK.
>
> To do data hiding. Define a structure but don't expose the internals
> of what that structure are.
I agree with you it is better not to use void *
So I suggest to use new struct rte_action_ctx or something like this. That
will be implemented differently for each driver just like rte_flow.
What do you think?
Best,
Ori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-02 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 9:18 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] add flow action context API Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-03 10:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-04 11:12 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-04 17:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-05 8:30 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-06-05 8:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-03 10:53 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-04 11:25 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-04 12:36 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-04 15:57 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-09 16:01 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-20 13:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 0/1] " Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-22 15:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-06-22 17:09 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-26 11:44 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-28 8:44 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-28 13:42 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-29 10:22 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-06-30 9:52 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-07-01 9:24 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-07-01 10:34 ` Jerin Jacob
2020-06-20 13:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/1] add flow shared action API Andrey Vesnovaty
2020-07-02 0:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-02 7:20 ` Ori Kam [this message]
2020-07-02 8:06 ` Andrey Vesnovaty
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