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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Cc: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Wisam Jaddo <wisamm@mellanox.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Raslan <rasland@mellanox.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>,
	dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] cmdline: increase maximum line length
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:46:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200731084638.304ef20c@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200731125516.GG5869@platinum>

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:55:16 +0200
Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Ressurecting this old thread.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 04:28:15PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > This patch is flagged as an ABI breakage:
> > https://travis-ci.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/289313318#L2273
> >   
> 
> In case we want this fix for 20.11, should we do a deprecation notice
> in 20.08?
> 
> 
> Olivier
> 
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:53 PM Wisam Jaddo <wisamm@mellanox.com> wrote:  
> > >
> > > This increase due to the usage of cmdline in dpdk applications
> > > as config commands such as testpmd do for rte_flow rules creation.
> > >
> > > The current size of buffer is not enough to fill
> > > many cases of rte_flow commands validation/creation.
> > >
> > > rte_flow now can have outer items, inner items, modify
> > > actions, meta data actions, duplicate action, fate action and
> > > more in one single rte flow, thus 512 char will not be enough
> > > to validate such rte flow rules.
> > >
> > > Such change shouldn't affect the memory since the cmdline
> > > reading again using the same buffer.  
> > 
> > I don't get your point here.

The cmdline is a awkward user API. Thomas wanted to replace it but
it seems to have gotten nowhere.

Agree that having something dynamic would be best, Something
based of getline() or editline (readline).

      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-31 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 13:18 [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] lib/cmdline_rdline: increase command line buf size Wisam Jaddo
2020-02-20 13:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-02-20 14:06   ` Wisam Monther
2020-02-20 14:53 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] cmdline: increase maximum line length Wisam Jaddo
2020-02-22 15:28   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " David Marchand
2020-07-31 12:55     ` Olivier Matz
2020-07-31 13:00       ` David Marchand
2020-07-31 15:46       ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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