W dniu 01.09.2020 o 15:39, Thomas Monjalon pisze:
> 27/08/2020 15:00, Kinsella, Ray:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> During recent work on the DPDK ABI, where we are looking to develop a nightly ABI regression test.
>>
>> We found a large number of experimental functions currently in DPDK API.
>> Currently, there are 537 experimental APIs out of a total of roughly ~1800 API, 30%-ish.
>>
>> While there is no correct number, as a percentage of the total, this appears to be very high.
>> I would question if all these API are really "new" and warrant the status?
>>
>> There are currently 38 libraries and drivers with experimental functions.
>> And to be fair there are number of recently added libraries in list, shown below.
>> However there are also a number of libraries that have been around a very long time.
>>
>> The following libraries and drivers have 10 or more experimental functions:
>>
>> 1.	rte_eal: 119
>> 2.	rte_ethdev: 43
>> 3.	rte_vhost: 42
>> 4.	rte_graph: 35 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 5.	rte_compressdev: 34
>> 6.	rte_rib: 28 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 7.	rte_pipeline: 24
>> 8.	rte_regexdev: 22 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 9.	rte_cryptodev: 18
>> 10.	rte_fib: 16 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 11.	rte_ipsec: 15 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 12.	rte_telemetry: 12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 13.	rte_mbuf: 11
>> 14.	rte_rcu: 11 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>> 15.	rte_bus_fslmc: 11
>> 16.	rte_bpf: 10 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>>
>> Do the maintainers of these libraries and drivers,
>> A. Feel that experimental status continues to be warranted against these API?
>> B. Have plans in place to move all/some of these functions to stable in the 20.11 timeframe?
>>
>> Kudos to Conor Walsh for pulling this data together.
> Do you have a tool to sort experimental functions per age?
>

Hi All,

There is a simple bash script grepping, sedding and blaming sources, 
that extract those data. I attach also collected results with found 
experimental functions.

Best regards

Lukasz

>
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