From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: Allain Legacy <allain.legacy@windriver.com>,
cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com, dev@dpdk.org,
yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:22:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170328092237.GB16008@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328091828.GA16008@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:29:44AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2017-03-09 08:10, Allain Legacy:
> > > This patchset includes some minor enhancements that we have developped for
> > > our DPDK application. We would like to contribute them upstream to help
> > > ease adoption of the DPDK by anyone looking for this type of
> > > functionality. The commit logs on each patch should be self-sufficient in
> > > explaining the intent and purpose.
> >
> > This series is small enough to be merged.
> > However, in the long term, we should not have this kind of library in DPDK.
> >
> > librte_cfgfile is used by the examples ip_pipeline and qos_sched.
> > I think the purpose of an example is to show some simple code demonstrating
> > a feature.
> > Examples using a configuration file are closer to a complete application.
> >
> > Anyway, why not use an external library like this one?
> > https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl
>
> Because as a general rule, anything adding in external dependencies needs
> to be disabled by default. This leads to the catch-22 situation I
> flagged before, and had no follow-up on. There is no way right now for
> someone to put in extra functionality like this into DPDK and have it
> default enabled. If you try putting it into DPDK directly, it will be
> rejected as duplicating other libs, but if you re-use the libs, it will
> be disabled by default as adding in an extra dependency.
>
> /Bruce
As follow-up to my own mail, for this specific library example, I
wouldn't look to remove it from DPDK anyway. Parsing ini files is fairly
trivial, so I think it's not a big deal to keep our own version and not
have an external dependency - especially since it's already there and not
a big maintenance burden.
For newer functionalty, we do need clear guidelines as to when it is
acceptable to add new dependencies to DPDK. I'd love to see us enable
the PCAP PMD by default, for instance, and I think Sergio has recently
proposed we also require libnuma on Linux.
Thoughts?
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-28 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-02 19:29 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] librte_cfgfile enhancement Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] cfgfile: configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 21:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-02 21:22 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 0:53 ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-03 11:17 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:31 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:07 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:14 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:17 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:18 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 12:52 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 12:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-03 12:17 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 13:10 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] cfgfile: cfg object not initialized after allocation Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] cfgfile: add support for unamed global section Allain Legacy
2017-03-03 10:53 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:03 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 11:06 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-03 11:15 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-03 11:18 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-02 19:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:46 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-03-09 15:16 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-09 15:23 ` Wiles, Keith
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] cfgfile: add support for unamed global section Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] cfgfile: configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-27 11:19 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-09 13:11 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-27 10:54 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-27 11:12 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-27 11:24 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-27 11:15 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-28 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 9:18 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 9:22 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2017-03-28 9:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 9:58 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-28 10:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 10:20 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-28 15:24 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 15:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-28 15:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-28 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 10:08 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-31 11:08 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-30 18:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 8:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:51 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/6] cfgfile: use strnlen to constrain memchr search Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
2017-03-31 13:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Allain Legacy
2017-04-04 14:23 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/6] librte_cfgfile enhancements Thomas Monjalon
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] test: basic unit tests for cfgfile Allain Legacy
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] cfgfile: add support for configurable comment character Allain Legacy
2017-03-29 9:22 ` Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:31 ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-29 0:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] cfgfile: increase local buffer size for max name and value Allain Legacy
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-7-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 9:31 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] cfgfile: add support for empty value string Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:33 ` Legacy, Allain
[not found] ` <20170329004737.44249-3-allain.legacy@windriver.com>
2017-03-29 9:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] cfgfile: add support for global properties section Dumitrescu, Cristian
2017-03-29 11:35 ` Legacy, Allain
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