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From: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:25:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd99f799-0562-252d-a7cb-d96bc7de4d3a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d38ef56d-8c09-ea9e-e071-13fe5d19d936@intel.com>


On 13/1/2021 11:18 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 13-Jan-21 11:14 AM, David Hunt wrote:
>> Hi Anatoly,
>>
>> On 13/1/2021 11:08 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>>> On 08-Jan-21 2:30 PM, David Hunt wrote:
>>>> The power example applications that uses the virtio-serial method of
>>>> communication cannot currently be built with make, and can only be 
>>>> built
>>>> using meson/ninja.
>>>>
>>>> The guest channel message definitions and functions in guest_channel.h
>>>> are needed by applications and need to be made public.
>>>>
>>>> This worked pre-20.11, but now with all the meson/ninja changes, 
>>>> making
>>>> these apps externally no longer works. To fix, we need to move the 
>>>> header
>>>> file with the API definitions for the channel commands public, and 
>>>> rename
>>>> the functions accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> The main change is to rename channel_commands.h to
>>>> rte_power_guest_channel.h so that it gets picked up by the 
>>>> installer and
>>>> copied to /usr/local/include. Other changes include renaming 
>>>> #defines to
>>>> have RTE_ at the beginning instead of CPU_. Finally we refactor the 
>>>> code
>>>> to work with those changes.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2 changes
>>>>    - re-worked from monolithic patch to a 6 patch patchset for 
>>>> easier review
>>>>
>>>> [PATCH v2 1/6] power: create guest channel public header file
>>>> [PATCH v2 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public
>>>> [PATCH v2 3/6] power: rename public structs
>>>> [PATCH v2 4/6] power: rename defines
>>>> [PATCH v2 5/6] power: add new header file to export list
>>>> [PATCH v2 6/6] power: clean up includes
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just a general question: wouldn't it be better to move this stuff 
>>> entirely into sample app and not bother with keeping it in the 
>>> library? There is precedent - ethtool app has a "library" and an 
>>> "application" part, i think you should be able to move it out of the 
>>> library and into the sample app entirely without too much trouble, 
>>> as code looks to be fairly self-contained.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed, that's a great idea. I could have a common lib under 
>> examples/vm_power_manager, then two apps, vm_power_manager and 
>> guest_cli. That would keep everything nicely local, and not expose 
>> the channel API publicly. The only reason we were making it public 
>> was to allow "make" to work, so that's not a good enought reason, 
>> tbh. I'll throw a prototype together today.
>
> Yep, IIRC Make works perfectly fine with ethtool, so i don't see why 
> it wouldn't work for your sample app as well. Thanks!


Hi Anatoly,

OK, so I was investigating this, and have come across a blocker on this 
method.

There are three methods for managing frequency, acpi, pstate and vm. 
It's the third method that's causing the problem with moving the channel 
functionality out into a sample library alongside vm_power_manger. VM's 
can call channel functions in the power library to affect frequency for 
their cores, and these functions use api function calls and several 
structures and #defines in their code, which is currently part of the 
power management library. These function declarations, structs and 
#defines ere needed in both the examples lib/apps and the power library 
itself, and the prototype changes I made ended up looking very much like 
the patch set that's already on the mailing list.

So, while I would have liked to have a solution along the lines of what 
you've proposed, it's not possible based on the dependencies on common 
structues and #defines.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Rgds,
Dave.






  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-17 11:36 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] " David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] " David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] power: create guest channel public header file David Hunt
2021-01-20 13:55     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps David Hunt
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] power: create guest channel public header file David Hunt
2021-01-20 15:09         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:12           ` David Hunt
2021-01-21 17:21         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps David Hunt
2021-01-21 17:21           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] power: create guest channel public header file David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] power: create guest channel public header file David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] power: rename public structs David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] power: rename defines David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] power: add new header file to export list David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:21               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] power: clean up includes David Hunt
2021-01-29 10:30               ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-21 17:21           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public David Hunt
2021-01-22 12:12             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-02-22  9:53             ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-21 17:21           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] power: rename public structs David Hunt
2021-01-22 12:15             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-22 12:18               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-22 12:18             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-28 22:57             ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-02-22  9:56             ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-01-21 17:21           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/6] power: rename defines David Hunt
2021-01-22 13:50             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-21 17:22           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] power: add new header file to export list David Hunt
2021-01-22 13:51             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-21 17:22           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/6] power: clean up includes David Hunt
2021-01-22 13:53             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-29 10:27           ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v4 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps Thomas Monjalon
2021-02-24 14:54           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] power: remove duplicated symbols from map file Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25  9:11             ` David Marchand
2021-02-25 10:41               ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25 10:44                 ` David Marchand
2021-02-25 10:54             ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-02-25 14:38               ` David Marchand
2021-03-02 12:42                 ` David Marchand
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public David Hunt
2021-01-20 14:26         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:08           ` David Hunt
2021-01-20 15:23             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] power: rename public structs David Hunt
2021-01-20 14:27         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:03           ` David Hunt
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] power: rename defines David Hunt
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] power: add new header file to export list David Hunt
2021-01-20 14:28         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:01           ` David Hunt
2021-01-20 15:17             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:08           ` Bruce Richardson
2021-01-20 15:18             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 15:29               ` David Hunt
2021-01-20 15:43                 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-20 13:55       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] power: clean up includes David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] power: make channel msg functions public David Hunt
2021-01-19 14:31     ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Thomas Monjalon
2021-01-19 14:51       ` David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] power: rename public structs David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] power: rename defines David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] power: add new header file to export list David Hunt
2021-01-08 14:30   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] power: clean up includes David Hunt
2021-01-13 11:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] power: fix make build for power apps Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-13 11:14     ` David Hunt
2021-01-13 11:18       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-01-13 13:25         ` David Hunt [this message]
2021-01-13 17:30           ` Burakov, Anatoly

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