From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69E84A65 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:34:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB7CA3D952; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com (ovpn-123-93.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.123.93] (may be forged)) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v2AIYS3K026570 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:34:31 -0500 From: Aaron Conole To: "Richardson\, Bruce" Cc: Thomas Monjalon , "dev\@dpdk.org" , "Stephen Hemminger" , Flavio Leitner References: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> <3101203.dHUXMUouNS@xps13> <20170309091122.GA302480@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> <6402749.s9Uk5EBMcM@xps13> <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B066712F8D@IRSMSX104.ger.corp.intel.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:34:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B066712F8D@IRSMSX104.ger.corp.intel.com> (Bruce Richardson's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2017 09:38:58 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of panic on init X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:34:34 -0000 "Richardson, Bruce" writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] >> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 9:26 AM >> To: Richardson, Bruce >> Cc: Aaron Conole ; dev@dpdk.org; Stephen Hemminger >> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of >> panic on init >> >> 2017-03-09 09:11, Bruce Richardson: >> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Thanks for the work. >> > > I think it needs to be completed to have the same behaviour on bsdapp. >> > >> > Ideally, yes, but I also don't think the lack of BSD changes should >> > block the inclusion of this set. In terms of application writers, the >> > apps don't need to be written differently for BSD compared to Linux >> > because of this change. All that is different is that the BSD version >> > will panic rather than return the error code. >> >> So you do not have any issue about having a different behaviour on Linux >> and BSD? >> You are the bsdapp maintainer, so it is your call. > > I would infinitely prefer to have the same behavior. However, so long > as this does not require a user to change their app to be different on > BSD, I don't think lack of BSD support should block improving Linux. > > Aaron - will you be able to do equivalent changes to BSD within the 17.05 timeframe? I'm going to spend some time next week looking into it. If it looks like it's akin to s/linuxapp/bsdapp/ and everything works, then I'll do it. If I get hung up on anything, I'll probably update with my status. -Aaron