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 CDB33A0C43; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0FD40140; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:04:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1ABE4013F for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:04:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10087"; a="204919654" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,353,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="204919654" Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 26 Aug 2021 04:04:19 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.84,353,1620716400"; d="scan'208";a="456807448" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.252.23.84]) by fmsmga007-auth.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 26 Aug 2021 04:04:17 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:04:14 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Akhil Goyal Cc: Ferruh Yigit , Ray Kinsella , "dev@dpdk.org" , Konstantin Ananyev , Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran Message-ID: References: <20210826103500.2172550-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 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