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From: "Kinsella, Ray" <mdr@ashroe.eu>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>,
	Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] [PATCH] doc: announce library refactor for ABI improvement
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:48:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e473e19-f87a-4199-2be5-2cd57b07c1d9@ashroe.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b3845d2-7a72-c6f0-8e1a-d428bc2bbfb8@oktetlabs.ru>



On 26/08/2021 16:44, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> On 8/26/21 2:04 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:46:35AM +0000, Akhil Goyal wrote:
>>>> Target is to reduce the public interface surface to improve the ABI
>>>> stability and this is preparation for the longer term stable ABI
>>>> support.
>>>>
>>>> Mainly device abstraction layer libraries are impacted because they have
>>>> two interfaces, one is public interface to the applications and other is
>>>> internal interface to the drivers. Some driver/internal interface
>>>> structures/symbols are in the public interface by mistake, this work is
>>>> to clean them.
>>>> Also some libraries has 'static inline' functions for performance
>>>> reasons (like ones in the ethdev), this work plans to split the
>>>> structures and hide the part that is not used by inline functions.
>>>>
>>>> The need of the work for the stable ABI already discussed and planned by
>>>> the DPDK technical board:
>>>> https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214662.html
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
>>
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
>
Acked-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>

      reply	other threads:[~2021-08-31 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-26 10:35 [dpdk-dev] " Ferruh Yigit
2021-08-26 10:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Akhil Goyal
2021-08-26 10:47   ` Jerin Jacob
2021-08-26 11:04   ` Bruce Richardson
2021-08-26 15:44     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-08-31 15:48       ` Kinsella, Ray [this message]

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