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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, thomas@monjalon.net, john.mcnamara@intel.com,
	bruce.richardson@intel.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 3/5] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:50:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180111205025.GA6879@hmswarspite.think-freely.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abb993bc-aa9f-7b4e-809f-8ab36b218735@intel.com>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:06:43PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 12/13/2017 3:17 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> > Add checks during build to ensure that all symbols in the EXPERIMENTAL
> > version map section have __experimental tags on their definitions, and
> > enable the warnings needed to announce their use.  Also add an
> > ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_APIS define to allow individual libraries and files
> > to declare the acceptability of experimental api usage
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> > CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > CC: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
> > CC: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  app/test-eventdev/Makefile                 | 1 +
> >  app/test-pmd/Makefile                      | 1 +
> >  drivers/event/sw/Makefile                  | 1 +
> >  drivers/net/failsafe/Makefile              | 1 +
> >  drivers/net/ixgbe/Makefile                 | 1 +
> >  examples/eventdev_pipeline_sw_pmd/Makefile | 1 +
> >  examples/flow_classify/Makefile            | 1 +
> >  examples/ipsec-secgw/Makefile              | 1 +
> >  examples/service_cores/Makefile            | 1 +
> >  lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile         | 1 +
> >  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/Makefile           | 2 ++
> >  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile       | 2 ++
> >  lib/librte_eventdev/Makefile               | 1 +
> >  lib/librte_security/Makefile               | 1 +
> >  mk/internal/rte.compile-pre.mk             | 4 ++++
> >  mk/toolchain/clang/rte.vars.mk             | 2 +-
> >  mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk               | 2 +-
> >  mk/toolchain/icc/rte.vars.mk               | 2 +-
> >  18 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/app/test-eventdev/Makefile b/app/test-eventdev/Makefile
> > index dcb2ac476..78bae7633 100644
> > --- a/app/test-eventdev/Makefile
> > +++ b/app/test-eventdev/Makefile
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.vars.mk
> >  
> >  APP = dpdk-test-eventdev
> >  
> > +CFLAGS += -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_APIS
> 
> Do we need this internally in DPDK? For application developers this is great,
> they will get warning unless explicitly stated that they are OK with it.
> 
I'm not sure what you're asking here.  As I mentioned in the initial post, I
think we should give blanket permission to any in-tree dpdk library to allow the
use of experimental API's, but that doesn't really imply that all developers
would wan't it disabled all the time.  That is to say, I could envision a
library author who, early in development would want to get a warning issued if
they used an unstable API, and, only once they were happy with their design and
choice of API usage, turn the warning off.

> Do we have any option than allowing them in DPDK library? And when experimental
> API modified the users in the DPDK library internally guaranteed to be updated.
> Why not globally allow this for all DPDK internally?
> 
For the reason I gave above.  We certainly could enable this in a more top-level
makefile so that for in-library systems it was opt-in rather than opt-out, but I
chose a more granular approach because I could envision newer libraries wanting
it on.  I also felt, generally speaking, that where warning flags were
concerned, it generally desireous to have them on by default, and make people
explicitly choose to turn them off.

Regards
Neil


> >  CFLAGS += -O3
> >  CFLAGS += $(WERROR_FLAGS)
> >  
> 
> <...>
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-11 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-01 18:56 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Neil Horman
2017-12-01 18:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] buildtools: Add tool to check EXPERIMENTAL api exports Neil Horman
2017-12-01 18:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] compat: Add __experimental macro Neil Horman
2017-12-01 18:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] dpdk: add __experimental tag to appropriate api calls Neil Horman
2017-12-01 18:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use Neil Horman
2017-12-08 17:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Neil Horman
2017-12-08 17:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 1/4] buildtools: Add tool to check EXPERIMENTAL api exports Neil Horman
2017-12-08 17:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 2/4] compat: Add __experimental macro Neil Horman
2017-12-08 17:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 3/4] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use Neil Horman
2017-12-11 11:35     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 12:40       ` Neil Horman
2017-12-11 12:45         ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 18:44           ` Neil Horman
2017-12-08 17:14   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2 4/4] dpdk: add __experimental tag to appropriate api calls Neil Horman
2017-12-11 19:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Neil Horman
2017-12-11 19:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 1/4] buildtools: Add tool to check EXPERIMENTAL api exports Neil Horman
2017-12-11 19:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 2/4] compat: Add __experimental macro Neil Horman
2017-12-11 19:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 3/4] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use Neil Horman
2017-12-11 19:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 4/4] dpdk: add __experimental tag to appropriate api calls Neil Horman
2017-12-12 14:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv3 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Bruce Richardson
2017-12-30 17:15     ` Neil Horman
2018-01-04 12:56       ` Neil Horman
2018-01-05 14:08         ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05 16:00           ` Neil Horman
2018-01-09  1:32             ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] " Neil Horman
2018-01-09  9:20               ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-09 12:36                 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-19 15:44                 ` Neil Horman
2017-12-12 14:33   ` [dpdk-dev] " Mcnamara, John
2017-12-12 20:18     ` Neil Horman
2017-12-12 15:11   ` Wiles, Keith
2017-12-12 20:14     ` Neil Horman
2017-12-13 15:17 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 " Neil Horman
2017-12-13 15:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 1/5] buildtools: Add tool to check EXPERIMENTAL api exports Neil Horman
2018-01-21 18:31     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-21 22:07       ` Neil Horman
2017-12-13 15:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 2/5] compat: Add __experimental macro Neil Horman
2018-01-21 18:37     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-13 15:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 3/5] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use Neil Horman
2018-01-11 20:06     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-11 20:50       ` Neil Horman [this message]
2018-01-12 11:49         ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-12 12:44           ` Neil Horman
2018-01-21 18:54             ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-22  1:34               ` Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:37                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-21 18:50     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-22  1:19       ` Neil Horman
2017-12-13 15:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 4/5] dpdk: add __experimental tag to appropriate api calls Neil Horman
2018-01-11 20:06     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-11 21:24       ` Neil Horman
2018-01-12 11:50         ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-12 14:25           ` Neil Horman
2018-01-12 15:53             ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-12-13 15:17   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 5/5] doc: Add ABI __experimental tag documentation Neil Horman
2017-12-13 15:32     ` Bruce Richardson
2018-01-11 20:06     ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-11 21:29       ` Neil Horman
2018-01-12 11:50         ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-12 14:37           ` Neil Horman
2018-01-12 15:55             ` Ferruh Yigit
2018-01-13  0:28               ` Neil Horman
2018-01-13 15:56                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-14 14:36                   ` Neil Horman
2018-01-14 16:27                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-21 20:14     ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-13 15:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv4 0/4] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Bruce Richardson
2017-12-21 14:21   ` Neil Horman
2017-12-30 19:20   ` Luca Boccassi
2017-12-31  1:57     ` Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] " Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [[PATCH v5] 1/5] buildtools: Add tool to check EXPERIMENTAL api exports Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [[PATCH v5] 2/5] compat: Add __rte_experimental macro Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [[PATCH v5] 3/5] Makefiles: Add experimental tag check and warnings to trigger on use Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [[PATCH v5] 4/5] dpdk: add __rte_experimental tag to appropriate api calls Neil Horman
2018-01-22  1:48   ` [dpdk-dev] [[PATCH v5] 5/5] doc: Add ABI __experimental tag documentation Neil Horman
2018-01-23 10:35     ` Mcnamara, John
2018-01-29 21:42       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-29 21:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] dpdk: enhance EXPERIMENTAL api tagging Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-30 15:54     ` Neil Horman
2018-01-30 16:15       ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-31 12:18         ` Neil Horman
2018-01-31 12:36           ` Thomas Monjalon

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