RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] app: reduce app dependencies

[Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>]

Hi David,
> Hello,
> 
> Cc: Akhil.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM Anatoly Burakov
> <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/app/test-crypto-perf/meson.build b/app/test-crypto-
> perf/meson.build
> > index fb48d9ec29..f056431bf4 100644
> > --- a/app/test-crypto-perf/meson.build
> > +++ b/app/test-crypto-perf/meson.build
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ sources = files(
> >          'cperf_test_verify.c',
> >          'main.c',
> >  )
> > -deps += ['cryptodev', 'net', 'security']
> > +deps += ['cryptodev']
> >  optional_deps += 'crypto_scheduler'
> >
> >  cflags += no_wvla_cflag
> 
> - This app does seem to rely on lib/net.
> 
> [989/1266] Compiling C object
> app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p/test-crypto-perf_cperf_ops.c.o
> FAILED: app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p/test-crypto-perf_cperf_ops.c.o
> ccache aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -Iapp/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p -Iapp
> -I../app -Ilib/cryptodev -I../lib/cryptodev -Ilib/mbuf -I../lib/mbuf
> -Ilib/mempool -I../lib/mempool -Ilib/ring -I../lib/ring -I. -I..
> -Iconfig -I../config -Ilib/eal/include -I../lib/eal/include
> -Ilib/eal/linux/include -I../lib/eal/linux/include
> -Ilib/eal/arm/include -I../lib/eal/arm/include -I../kernel/linux
> -Ilib/eal/common -I../lib/eal/common -Ilib/eal -I../lib/eal
> -Ilib/kvargs -I../lib/kvargs -Ilib/log -I../lib/log -Ilib/metrics
> -I../lib/metrics -Ilib/telemetry -I../lib/telemetry -Ilib/rcu
> -I../lib/rcu -fdiagnostics-color=always -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Wextra -Werror -std=c11 -O3 -include rte_config.h
> -Wvla -Wcast-qual -Wdeprecated -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral
> -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wno-packed-not-aligned
> -Wno-missing-field-initializers -D_GNU_SOURCE -mcpu=cortex-a72
> -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -Wno-vla -MD -MQ
> app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p/test-crypto-perf_cperf_ops.c.o -MF
> app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p/test-crypto-perf_cperf_ops.c.o.d -o
> app/dpdk-test-crypto-perf.p/test-crypto-perf_cperf_ops.c.o -c
> ../app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_ops.c
> ../app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_ops.c:6:10: fatal error: rte_ether.h: No
> such file or directory
>     6 | #include <rte_ether.h>
>       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> 
> 
> - Btw, rte_security.h is included in app/test-crypto-perf/cperf_ops.c.
> However, given there is a #ifdef, I suspect the intention was to have
> lib/security as an optional dep.

Yes it was initially meant to be optional when rte_security was experimental.
But now, it is kind of mandatory library. I am not sure if it will compile without rte_security.
We can remove the ifdefs over rte_security and
we should not remove security dependency from crypto-perf.

-Akhil