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From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	"Artem V. Andreev" <artem.andreev@oktetlabs.ru>,
	Ashwin Sekhar T K <asekhar@marvell.com>,
	Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>,
	Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	Sachin Saxena <sachin.saxena@oss.nxp.com>,
	Harman Kalra <hkalra@marvell.com>,
	Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	Nithin Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram@marvell.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] mempool: add namespace to driver register macro
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:38:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <771cb36a-abf2-cc5a-72a4-e52f272366a5@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8y-zFZ7w2AKfoEhJVMy9AXjZJOmLefBm9_Cw+gj1CKOKw@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/19/21 12:27 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:05 AM Andrew Rybchenko
> <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/19/21 11:49 AM, David Marchand wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:50 PM Andrew Rybchenko
>>> <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Add RTE_ prefix to macro used to register mempool driver.
>>>> The old one is still available but deprecated.
>>>
>>> ODP seems to use its own mempools.
>>>
>>> $ git grep-all -w MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS
>>> OpenDataplane/platform/linux-generic/pktio/dpdk.c:MEMPOOL_REGISTER_OPS(odp_pool_ops);
>>>
>>> I'd say it counts as a driver macro.
>>> If so, we could hide it in a driver-only header, along with
>>> rte_mempool_register_ops getting marked as internal.
>>>
>>> $ git grep-all -w rte_mempool_register_ops
>>> FD.io-VPP/src/plugins/dpdk/buffer.c:  rte_mempool_register_ops (&ops);
>>> FD.io-VPP/src/plugins/dpdk/buffer.c:  rte_mempool_register_ops (&ops);
>>
>> Do I understand correctly that it is required to remove it from
>> stable ABI/API, but still allow external SW to use it?
>>
>> Should I add one more patch to the series?
> 
> If we want to do the full job, we need to inspect driver-only symbols
> in rte_mempool.h.
> But this goes way further than a simple prefixing as this series intended.
> 
> I just read your reply, I think we agree.
> Let's go with simple prefix and take a note to cleanup in the future.

Agreed.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-19  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-18 14:49 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] mempool: cleanup namespace Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/6] mempool: avoid flags documentation in the next line Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] mempool: add namespace prefix to flags Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  8:52   ` David Marchand
2021-10-19  9:40     ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/6] mempool: add namespace to internal but still visible API Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  8:47   ` David Marchand
2021-10-19  9:10     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/6] mempool: make header size calculation internal Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  8:48   ` David Marchand
2021-10-19  8:59     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] mempool: add namespace to driver register macro Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  8:49   ` David Marchand
2021-10-19  9:04     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  9:23       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19  9:27       ` David Marchand
2021-10-19  9:38         ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2021-10-19  9:42         ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-18 14:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/6] mempool: deprecate unused defines Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 10:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] mempool: cleanup namespace Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] mempool: avoid flags documentation in the next line Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:13     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] mempool: add namespace prefix to flags Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:13     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 16:15       ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 17:45       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/6] mempool: add namespace to internal but still visible API Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:14     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/6] mempool: make header size calculation internal Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:14     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 17:23       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/6] mempool: add namespace to driver register macro Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:16     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 10:08   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/6] mempool: deprecate unused defines Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 16:21     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 17:23       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 17:40 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] mempool: cleanup namespace Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/6] mempool: avoid flags documentation in the next line Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/6] mempool: add namespace prefix to flags Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 20:03     ` David Marchand
2021-10-20  7:50       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/6] mempool: add namespace to internal but still visible API Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/6] mempool: make header size calculation internal Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-20  6:55     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/6] mempool: add namespace to driver register macro Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-20  6:57     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/6] mempool: deprecate unused defines Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-20  7:08     ` Olivier Matz
2021-10-19 20:09   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/6] mempool: cleanup namespace David Marchand
2021-10-20  7:52     ` David Marchand
2021-10-20  7:54       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-20  7:52     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-10-20  8:07       ` David Marchand

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