From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
"Tyler Retzlaff" <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org,
"Honnappa Nagarahalli" <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>,
"Ruifeng Wang" <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>,
"Jerin Jacob" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"Sunil Kumar Kori" <skori@marvell.com>,
"Mattias Rönnblom" <mattias.ronnblom@ericsson.com>,
"Joyce Kong" <joyce.kong@arm.com>,
"David Christensen" <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Konstantin Ananyev" <konstantin.v.ananyev@yandex.ru>,
"David Hunt" <david.hunt@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:26:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10054797.lvqk35OSZv@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8zHccpbd06HQfPvaOMh9wPRU2FZqtrqBOCUtpESeXL7ew@mail.gmail.com>
29/09/2023 11:34, David Marchand:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:26 AM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:02:38AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 10:54 AM Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> > > > In my opinion, our move to C11 thus makes RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON obsolete.
> > >
> > > That's my thought too.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > We should mark RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON as deprecated, and disallow RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON in new code. Perhaps checkpatches could catch this?
> > >
> > > For a clear deprecation of a part of DPDK API, I don't see a need to
> > > add something in checkpatch.
> > > Putting a RTE_DEPRECATED in RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON directly triggers a build
> > > warning (caught by CI since we run with Werror).
> > >
> >
> > Would it not be sufficient to just make it an alias for the C11 static
> > assertions? It's not like its a lot of code to maintain, and if app users
> > have it in their code I'm not sure we get massive benefit from forcing them
> > to edit their code. I'd rather see it kept as a one-line macro purely from
> > a backward compatibility viewpoint. We can replace internal usages, though
> > - which can be checked by checkpatch.
>
> No, there is no massive benefit, just trying to reduce our ever
> growing API surface.
>
> Note, this macro should have been kept internal but it was introduced
> at a time such matter was not considered...
I agree with all.
Now taking techboard hat, we agreed to avoid breaking API if possible.
So we should keep RTE_BUILD_BUG_ON forever even if not used.
Internally we can replace its usages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-29 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-11 1:31 [PATCH 0/6] RFC optional rte optional stdatomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 1:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 8:56 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-08-11 9:42 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 15:54 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 9:04 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 1:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 1:31 ` [PATCH 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 1:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 1:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 8:57 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-08-11 9:51 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 15:56 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 6:37 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] RFC optional rte optional stdatomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 7:06 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 8:00 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-14 17:47 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 20:13 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-16 20:32 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 8:05 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 8:07 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 8:11 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-11 17:32 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-14 8:12 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] RFC optional rte optional stdatomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 20:55 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-16 21:04 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:08 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-16 21:10 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 19:19 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] RFC optional rte optional stdatomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 11:45 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-17 19:09 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-18 6:55 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-16 21:38 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 11:57 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-17 19:14 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-18 7:13 ` Morten Brørup
2023-08-22 18:14 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] optional rte optional stdatomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-17 21:42 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-21 22:27 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] optional rte optional stdatomics API Konstantin Ananyev
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] rte atomics API for optional stdatomic Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] eal: provide rte stdatomics optional atomics API Tyler Retzlaff
2023-09-28 8:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-09-29 8:04 ` David Marchand
2023-09-29 8:54 ` Morten Brørup
2023-09-29 9:02 ` David Marchand
2023-09-29 9:26 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-09-29 9:34 ` David Marchand
2023-09-29 10:26 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-09-29 11:38 ` David Marchand
2023-09-29 11:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] eal: adapt EAL to present rte " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] eal: add rte atomic qualifier with casts Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] distributor: adapt for EAL optional atomics API changes Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] bpf: " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-22 21:00 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] devtools: forbid new direct use of GCC atomic builtins Tyler Retzlaff
2023-08-29 15:57 ` [PATCH v6 0/6] rte atomics API for optional stdatomic Tyler Retzlaff
2023-09-29 14:09 ` David Marchand
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