Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/12] mempool: allow config override on element alignment

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyril Chemparathy [mailto:cchemparathy@ezchip.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:43 PM
> To: Ananyev, Konstantin
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/12] mempool: allow config override on element alignment
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:31:06 +0000
> "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > > +#define RTE_MEMPOOL_ALIGN_MASK	(RTE_MEMPOOL_ALIGN - 1)
> >
> > I am probably a bit late with my comments, but why not make it a
> > runtime decision then? I know we can't add a new parameter to
> > mempool_xmem_create() without ABI breakage, but we can make some
> > global variable for now, that could be setup at init time or
> > something similar.
> 
> But then, a global variable that is modified by an application _is_ a
> part of the ABI, and a bad one at that.
> 
> I agree with the desire to make it runtime configurable, but I think we
> should do so in the right spirit, with the appropriate interfaces, and
> when we're open to changing the ABI accordingly.

Ok, let's wait till next release then.
Konstantin

> 
> Thanks
> -- Cyril.