From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Betts, Ian" <ian.betts@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/4] examples: add performance-thread
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:42:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1708049.N2o5aAuiY6@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877C1F8553E92F43898365570816082F35C0CEA6@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>
2015-12-11 08:31, Betts, Ian:
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> >Applied, thanks
> >The patch to mark it experimental and disable it has also been applied.
> >The huge codebase has been integrated to give visibility.
> >We need to discuss it more and decide how to continue (as a lib or drop).
>
> Thanks Thomas,
> When you analyze the "huge" codebase it breaks into 3 parts:
>
> 1. A common l-thread subsystem ( ~2Kloc )
> 2. An l3fwd derived example ( ~2Kloc)
> 3. An hello world example pthread shim ( ~700loc )
>
> If there is interest in lightweight threads the hope/expectation is that the l-thread
> subsystem would become an rte library. On the scale of things I would describe
> it as an average sized lib in DPDK terms.
Yes, if it gains some interest and fit in the desired scope of DPDK,
it may become a library.
> As for the examples, obviously there needs to be some example, but perhaps
> it is not so critical if they are retained in the present form, at least this is the only
> place I can see to save lines of code.
Yes. Maybe we can make some efforts to shrink the size of examples (generally)
to make them easy to maintain and didactic.
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2015-12-08 6:05 ` Ian Betts
2015-12-08 6:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 1/4] doc: add sample application guide for performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-08 6:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 2/4] examples: add lthread subsystem " Ian Betts
2015-12-08 6:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 3/4] examples: add l3fwd-thread example in performance-thread Ian Betts
2015-12-08 6:05 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 4/4] examples: add pthread_shim example to performance thread Ian Betts
2015-12-08 12:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 0/4] examples: add performance-thread Kulasek, TomaszX
2015-12-11 1:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-11 8:31 ` Betts, Ian
2015-12-11 11:42 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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