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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>,
	Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mempool: reduce rte_mempool structure size
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:57:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1637610.sEJPJ7NIGK@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BDC0C1.9010506@redhat.com>

2016-02-12 13:23, Panu Matilainen:
> On 02/10/2016 11:18 PM, Keith Wiles wrote:
> >   static inline void *rte_mempool_get_priv(struct rte_mempool *mp)
> >   {
> > +#ifdef RTE_NEXT_ABI
> > +	return (char *)mp +
> > +		MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE(mp, mp->pg_num, mp->cache_size);
> > +#else
> >   	return (char *)mp + MEMPOOL_HEADER_SIZE(mp, mp->pg_num);
> > +#endif /* RTE_NEXT_ABI */
> >   }
> 
> This is not RTE_NEXT_ABI material IMO, the added ifdef clutter is just 
> too much.

The changes are restricted to the mempool files.
I think it is not so much. However I wonder how much the feature is important
to justify the use of NEXT_ABI.

> I'd suggest adding a deprecation notice for the change now and after 
> 16.04 is released, just resend the patch without messing with RTE_NEXT_ABI.

When adding a deprecation notice, it is really better to provide a reference
to the code change.
So if you give up with NEXT_ABI, please add a link to this code change in
the new commit message. Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-12 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02 23:02 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: Reduce " Keith Wiles
2016-02-03 17:11 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2016-02-08 11:02 ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-08 15:57   ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-09 17:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool: reduce " Keith Wiles
2016-02-10 16:59   ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-10 17:22     ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-10 18:35     ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-10 20:06       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-10 21:18   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Keith Wiles
2016-02-12 11:23     ` Panu Matilainen
2016-02-12 13:57       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-02-12 14:19         ` Panu Matilainen
2016-02-12 15:07           ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-12 15:38             ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-12 15:50               ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-12 15:58                 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-15  9:58                 ` Hunt, David
2016-02-15 10:15                   ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-15 10:21                     ` Hunt, David
2016-02-15 12:31                       ` Olivier MATZ
2016-02-12 15:54               ` Wiles, Keith
2016-02-12 18:36   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Keith Wiles
2016-02-15  9:20     ` Olivier MATZ
2016-04-14  9:42     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Olivier Matz
2016-04-14 13:28       ` Wiles, Keith
2016-04-14 13:43         ` Olivier MATZ
2016-04-14 13:53       ` Wiles, Keith
2016-05-17  5:31       ` Thomas Monjalon

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