RE: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: add thread-safe crc api

["Kusztal, ArkadiuszX" <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 2, 2024 11:36 PM
> To: Kusztal, ArkadiuszX <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; ferruh.yigit@amd.com; Ji, Kai <kai.ji@intel.com>; Dooley,
> Brian <brian.dooley@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: add thread-safe crc api
> 
> On Tue,  1 Oct 2024 19:11:48 +0100
> Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > The current net CRC API is not thread-safe, this patch solves this by
> > adding another, thread-safe API functions.
> 
> Couldn't the old API be made threadsafe with TLS?
> 
> > This API is also safe to use across multiple processes, yet with
> > limitations on max-simd-bitwidth, which will be checked only by the
> > process that created the CRC context; all other processes will use the
> > same CRC function when used with the same CRC context.
> > It is an undefined behavior when process binaries are compiled with
> > different SIMD capabilities when the same CRC context is used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kusztal <arkadiuszx.kusztal@intel.com>
> 
> The API/ABI can't change for 25.03, do you want to support both?

I sent a new patch with versioned symbols. If this will not be accepted, this potentially can be moved to the .11 release.

> Or wait until 25.11?