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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage <wathsala.vithanage@arm.com>
Cc: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Dhruv Tripathi <Dhruv.Tripathi@arm.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	Jack Bond-Preston <jack.bond-preston@foss.arm.com>,
	Nick Connolly <Nick.Connolly@arm.com>,
	Vinod Krishna <Vinod.Krishna@arm.com>,
	 "david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: add Arm WFET in power management intrinsics
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6302927.2eNUzBXWct@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR08MB5073DD17FB58524AFE5A8CF19FDD2@AM0PR08MB5073.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

03/07/2024 15:27, Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage:
> > RTE_WAIT_UNTIL_EQUAL_ARCH_DEFINED #ifdef block.
> > > This patch fixes this issue by moving __RTE_ARM_WFE out of
> > > RTE_WAIT_UNTIL_EQUAL_ARCH_DEFINED block.
> > >
> > > Perhaps we should change RTE_ARM_USE_WFE to something like
> > > RTE_ARM_USE_WFE_IN_WAIT_UNTIL_EQUAL ?
> > 
> > Yes perhaps.
> RTE_ARM_USE_WFE is already used in drivers/event/cnxk/cn10k_worker.h
> therefore RTE_ARM_USE_WFE_IN_WAIT_UNTIL_EQUAL is not suitable.
> I wouldn't mind keeping RTE_ARM_USE_WFE because "USE_WFE" sounds like an
> instruction to use WFE rather than an indication of availability of the WFE instruction. 

The problem is that the definition of this flag is not clear.
What is it doing?
If it's really disabling WFE, keep the #ifdef to not use it.

For now, it is a nack of this patch for all reasons described before.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-03 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-04  4:44 [PATCH 1/2] config/arm: adds Arm Neoverse N3 SoC Wathsala Vithanage
2024-06-04  4:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] eal: add Arm WFET in power management intrinsics Wathsala Vithanage
2024-06-04 15:41   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-06-19  6:45   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] config/arm: adds Arm Neoverse N3 SoC Wathsala Vithanage
2024-06-19  6:45     ` [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: add Arm WFET in power management intrinsics Wathsala Vithanage
2024-06-27 15:30       ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-01 21:34         ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-02  8:29           ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-03 13:27             ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-03 13:33               ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2024-07-03 16:58                 ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-04 10:55                   ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-07-04 14:14                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-04 14:55                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-07-04 18:59                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-05 16:10                           ` [EXTERNAL] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-07-07 17:37                             ` [EXTERNAL] " Honnappa Nagarahalli
2024-07-05 16:01                     ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-05 16:11                       ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2024-07-05 16:25                         ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-03 16:19             ` Wathsala Wathawana Vithanage
2024-07-15 22:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] eal: expand the availability of WFE and related instructions Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-15 22:53   ` [PATCH v3 2/4] config/arm: adds Arm Neoverse N3 SoC Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-16  1:52     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2024-07-15 22:53   ` [PATCH v3 3/4] eal: add Arm WFET in power management intrinsics Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-15 22:53   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] eal: describe Arm CPU features including WFXT Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-16  1:02     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2024-07-26 17:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] eal: expand the availability of WFE and related instructions Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-26 17:15   ` [PATCH v4 2/4] config/arm: adds Arm Neoverse N3 SoC Wathsala Vithanage
2024-07-26 17:15   ` [PATCH v4 3/4] eal: add Arm WFET in power management intrinsics Wathsala Vithanage
2024-10-10 17:01     ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-26 17:15   ` [PATCH v4 4/4] eal: describe Arm CPU features including WFXT Wathsala Vithanage

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