From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Andre Muezerie <andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@huawei.com>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: add deprecation notice about limit on defer queue element size
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:17:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4620749.daG60p0z9X@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1747957021-2581-1-git-send-email-andremue@linux.microsoft.com>
23/05/2025 01:37, Andre Muezerie:
> The functions rte_rcu_qsbr_dq_create and rte_rcu_qsbr_dq_reclaim establish
> no limit on the size of each element in the defer queue.
Very good, we need more unlimited API in DPDK.
> With DPDK 25.11 a hard limit will be set (``RTE_QSBR_ESIZE_MAX``).
I think it is a step in the wrong direction.
I prefer having no limit.
> This will allow fixed C arrays to be used in the functions' implementations,
> avoiding VLAs and use of alloca().
I don't understand this justification.
Why trying to remove the 2 alloca() in the lib RCU?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-01 14:17 UTC|newest]
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2025-05-22 23:37 Andre Muezerie
2025-07-01 7:56 ` David Marchand
2025-07-01 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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