From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from USCAMAIL.TILERA.COM (uscamail.tilera.com [12.218.212.166]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806513B5 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 23:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.107.0.247] (10.109.0.23) by USCAEXCH2.tad.internal.tilera.com (10.103.0.33) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.181.6; Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:39:58 -0700 Message-ID: <54330D9A.3080003@tilera.com> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:46:02 -0700 From: Cyril Chemparathy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chao Zhu , References: <1411724018-7738-1-git-send-email-bjzhuc@cn.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1411724018-7738-1-git-send-email-bjzhuc@cn.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.109.0.23] Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Patches to split architecture specific operations from DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:32:50 -0000 On 9/26/2014 2:33 AM, Chao Zhu wrote: > The set of patches split x86 architecture specific operations from DPDK and put them to the > arch directories of i686 and x86_64 architecture. This will make the adpotion of DPDK much easier > on other computer architecture. For a new architecture, just add an architecture specific > directory and necessary building configuration files, then DPDK can support it. Wouldn't the SSE specifics in rte_common.h and rte_common_vect.h need to be similarly split out into architecture specifics? Thanks -- Cyril.