RE: [EXT] [PATCH -v1] bbdev: update num_ops type to be uint32_t in rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk

["Chautru, Nicolas" <nicolas.chautru@intel.com>]

Hi Akhil, 
The change below from Mingshan is not for 21.11, this is targeting following release. It should have been mentioned in cover letter. 
Thanks
Nic


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 11:21 PM
> To: Zhang, Mingshan <mingshan.zhang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org;
> akhil.goyal@nxp.com
> Cc: Chautru, Nicolas <nicolas.chautru@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [EXT] [PATCH -v1] bbdev: update num_ops type to be uint32_t in
> rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk
> 
> > From: Mingshan Zhang <mingshan.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> Title is too big. Please run ./devtools/check-git-log.sh.
> >
> > update num_ops type to be uint32_t in rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk
> Explain the need for this change. We only take critical fixes in the APIs for
> RC4.
> Bbdev APIs are not experimental anymore. Please rebase on TOT.
> This change is an API change which may need deprecation notice from next
> release.
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mingshan Zhang <mingshan.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/prog_guide/bbdev.rst | 4 ++--
> >  lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h        | 4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/bbdev.rst
> > b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bbdev.rst index 70fa01a..c330e08 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/bbdev.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/bbdev.rst
> > @@ -387,10 +387,10 @@ allocate bbdev operations of a specific type
> > from a given bbdev operation mempoo  .. code-block:: c
> >
> >      int rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
> > -            struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
> > +            struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint32_t num_ops)
> >
> >      int rte_bbdev_dec_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
> > -            struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
> > +            struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint32_t num_ops)
> >
> >  ``rte_bbdev_*_op_free_bulk()`` is called by the application to return
> > an  operation to its allocating pool.
> > diff --git a/lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h b/lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h index
> > 5512859..f074b35 100644
> > --- a/lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
> > +++ b/lib/bbdev/rte_bbdev_op.h
> > @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ struct rte_mempool *  __rte_experimental  static
> > inline int  rte_bbdev_enc_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
> > -		struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
> > +		struct rte_bbdev_enc_op **ops, uint32_t num_ops)
> >  {
> >  	struct rte_bbdev_op_pool_private *priv;
> >  	int ret;
> > @@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ struct rte_mempool *  __rte_experimental  static
> > inline int  rte_bbdev_dec_op_alloc_bulk(struct rte_mempool *mempool,
> > -		struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint16_t num_ops)
> > +		struct rte_bbdev_dec_op **ops, uint32_t num_ops)
> >  {
> >  	struct rte_bbdev_op_pool_private *priv;
> >  	int ret;
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1