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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 10:09:34 +0000
From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 07/17] drivers: replace page size
 definitions with function
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 10:53:46AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 01/03/2021 10:41, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 01:53:42PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > The page size is often retrieved from the macro PAGE_SIZE.
> > > If PAGE_SIZE is not defined, it is either using hard coded default,
> > > or getting the system value from the UNIX-only function sysconf().
> > > 
> > > Such definitions are replaced with the generic function
> > > rte_mem_page_size() defined for each supported OS.
> > > 
> > > Removing PAGE_SIZE definitions will fix dlb drivers for musl libc,
> > > because #ifdef checks were missing, causing redefinition errors.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > > ---
> > Is the header file with the rte_mem_page_size() function missing from this
> > patch?
> 
> No, the function exists since DPDK 20.08.
> 
> > Also, rather than a function for this, would it not be better to keep it as
> > a macro as RTE_PAGE_SIZE, to keep it more in line with the macro people
> > expect to have available?
> 
> No because the size is not always known at compilation time.
> See the implementation:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=c4b89ecb64eae
> 
Ok, thanks for the explanation.