Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] build: disable experimental API check internally

["Trahe, Fiona" <fiona.trahe@intel.com>]

Hi Davd, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:56 PM
> To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>; Pavan Nikhilesh
> <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
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> <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] build: disable experimental API check internally
> 
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 3:44 PM Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 2:23 PM
> > > To: Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com>
> > > Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>; Pavan Nikhilesh
> > > <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Thomas
> Monjalon
> > > <thomas@monjalon.net>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > > <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] build: disable experimental API check internally
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:21 PM Trahe, Fiona <fiona.trahe@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > I see this is already applied.
> > > >
> > > > However,
> > > > rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup() calls
> > > > rte_cryptodev_sym_get_existing_header_session_size()
> > > > The former is a stable API, the latter is experimental.
> > > > So I expect the build to break when ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API is disabled.
> > [Fiona] Thanks for confirming where the flag is.
> > But I think you've missed my point.
> > What about this problem?
> 
> - dpdk-test-crypto-perf is built as part of the dpdk compilation itself.
> There is no user to be made aware of its use of experimental API.
> 
> Now if you are talking about how the crypto API is bent in that it
> exposes a stable ABI with an underlying experimental ABI, this has
> nothing to do with the flag change.
[Fiona] Before this if an application didn't set ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API
(which I expect is the default for many apps) then the build worked fine
as long as the app didn't directly call an experimental API. The crypto lib
still built ok as its own Makefile had the flag.
I just tried this with dpdk-test-crypto-perf. I had to remove one direct call,
without that it built ok. When I remove the flag from the crypto lib Makefile, the
build breaks as expected due to the above issue.

So, yes, cryptodev lib should be fixed.
However this patch just applied will potentially break builds for many apps!
It could expose many other issues of internal dependencies on experimental APIs.



> 
> - But if you want to check crypto experimental api, then try to
> disable the flag in examples making use of them.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand