Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] mempool: add stack (lifo) mempool handler

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

Hi,

On 06/21/2016 11:28 AM, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>>>> I was proposing only to move only the new
>>>> handler(lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool_stack.c). Not any library or any
>>>> other common code.
>>>>
>>>> Just like DPDK crypto device, Even if it is software implementation its
>>>> better to move in driver/crypto instead of lib/librte_cryptodev
>>>>
>>>> "lib/librte_mempool/arch/" is not correct place as it is platform specific
>>>> not architecture specific and HW mempool device may be PCIe or platform
>>>> device.
>>>
>>> Ok, but why rte_mempool_stack.c has to be moved?
>>
>> Just thought of having all the mempool handlers at one place.
>> We can't move all HW mempool handlers at lib/librte_mempool/
> 
> Yep, but from your previous mail I thought we might have specific ones
> for specific devices, no? 
> If so, why to put them in one place, why just not in:
> Drivers/xxx_dev/xxx_mempool.[h,c]
> ?
> And keep generic ones in lib/librte_mempool
> ?

I think all drivers (generic or not) should be at the same place for
consistency.

I'm not sure having them lib/librte_mempool is really a problem today,
but once hardware-dependent handler are pushed, we may move all of them
in drivers/mempool because I think we should avoid to have hw-specific
code in lib/.

I don't think it will cause ABI/API breakage since the user always
talk to the generic mempool API.

Regards
Olivier