Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mempool: reduce rte_mempool structure size

[Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>]

Hi David,

On 02/15/2016 11:21 AM, Hunt, David wrote:
> On 15/02/2016 10:15, Olivier MATZ wrote:
>> On 02/15/2016 10:58 AM, Hunt, David wrote:
>>>      I'm working on that at the moment with the external mempool handler
>>> code. However, it crossed my mind that we have a choice to use symbol
>>> versioning OR use NEXT_ABI. Would one method be preferred over the
>>> other?
>>
>> I think symbol versioning should always be preferred when possible.
>>
>> In your case, as far as I remember, your are updating the rte_mempool
>> structure, which is accessed by static inline functions. I don't think
>> it is easily manageable with symbol versioning. Moreover, the ABI will
>> already be broken by Keith's patch, so I think it's less problematic
>> to have other patches breaking the ABI at the same time.
> 
> OK, Thanks for that. I'll use NEXT_ABI in this case so. :)

Just to let you know in case you missed it: Keith's patch (v3 [1] and
v4 [2]) finally does not have the NEXT_ABI ifdefs, because it was
too heavy.

So for your patches it will also depend on the complexity of the
changes. You can have a try with NEXT_ABI and see if the code is
still maintainable or not. If not, the process is to push a deprecation
notice for 16.04 and the code for 16.07.

Regards,
Olivier

[1] v3: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-February/033004.html
[2] v4: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-February/033102.html