From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH] doc: announce library refactor for ABI improvement
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:04:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSd1Lu0g1tFgh93M@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CO6PR18MB448497DCFF3479CBACFA72A8D8C79@CO6PR18MB4484.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
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 <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > ---
> Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 10:35 [dpdk-dev] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-26 10:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2021-08-26 10:47 ` Jerin Jacob
2021-08-26 11:04 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2021-08-26 15:44 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-08-31 15:48 ` Kinsella, Ray
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