From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 02/14] eal: do not panic when CPU isn't supported
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:27:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7twpbg3w6x.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170323134730.GA8688@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> (Bruce Richardson's message of "Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:47:31 +0000")
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 04:19:28PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> This adds a new API to check for the eal cpu versions.
>>
>> It's now possible to gracefully exit the application, or for
>> applications which support non-dpdk datapaths working in concert with
>> DPDK datapaths, there no longer is the possibility of exiting for
>> unsupported CPUs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
>
> I think we should mark the old function as deprecated or else delete it
> entirely. It was technically public, but I suspect it was only ever used
> by the EAL init, so I'd look to get rid of it ASAP rather than leave it
> hanging around unneeded.
Okay, I'll submit a follow on patch after this is accepted to mark it as
deprecated. I agree, I don't know of any application using it (though I
looked at MoonGen, ovs, and warp17).
> /Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-22 20:19 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/14] eal: Remove most causes of panic on init Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 01/14] eal: do not panic on cpu detection Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 02/14] eal: do not panic when CPU isn't supported Aaron Conole
2017-03-23 13:47 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-03-23 14:27 ` Aaron Conole [this message]
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 03/14] eal: do not panic on hugepage info init Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 04/14] eal: do not panic if parsing args returns error Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 05/14] eal: do not panic on memzone initialization fails Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 06/14] eal: set errno when exiting for already called Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 07/14] eal: do not panic on a number of conditions Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 08/14] eal: do not panic on timer init failure Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 09/14] eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 10/14] eal: do not error if plugins fail to init Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 11/14] eal: do not panic on PCI failures Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 12/14] eal: do not panic if vdev init fails Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 13/14] eal: do not panic when bus probe/scan fails Aaron Conole
2017-03-22 20:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 14/14] rte_eal_init: add info about various error codes Aaron Conole
2017-03-23 14:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/14] eal: Remove most causes of panic on init Bruce Richardson
2017-03-27 14:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-31 17:54 ` Aaron Conole
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