Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] Yet another option for DPDK options

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01:53:55PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 04:08:37PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > struct key_vals {
> > 	char *key;
> > 	union {
> > 		ulong longval;
> > 		void *ptrval;
> > 	} value;
> > };
> > 
> > struct config {
> > 	size_t count;
> > 	struct key_vals kvp[0];
> > };
> 
> This sort of code is very 1970s / ioctl / messy binary. And doesn't buy any 
> performance advantage because it's just for config.
> 
What!?  I can't even parse that sentence.  Of course its just for config, we're
talking about a configuration structure. If you want to make it more
complex/heirarchical/whatever, fine, propose a way to do that that isnt ABI
variant in response to config additions.  Its just a starting point.

> Something that looks more like sysctl MIBs with hierarchical names or like 
> JSON w/ a hierarchy of hash tables and arrays is much less user-hostile.
> 

> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sysctl(3)
> 
I can't even begin to understand what you're after here.  sysctl provides a
heirarchy in _exactly_ the same way that I just proposed, by texual consistency
in naming.

> http://json-c.github.io/json-c/json-c-0.12/doc/html/json__object_8h.html
> 
So, this is a fine interface to convert text config to a code format, but thats
a decision that application should be making, not something dpdk should mandate

Neil

> Matthew.
>