Re: [dpdk-stable] RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE not present in 19.11.x series

["Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>]

Hi，Christian,
	Agreed, this patch can be abandoned in 19.11x， It can backport
to 20.11.x.

在 2021/6/1 16:25, Christian Ehrhardt 写道:
> Hi,
> this was targeted at the stable releases:
> 
> commit 1bdcca8006e4c690d017531f7fc6c31b19ad8d1d
> Author: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
> Date:   Sat Apr 17 17:54:58 2021 +0800
> 
>      net/hns3: fix flow director lock
> 
> 
> But it introduced
> 
> ../drivers/net/hns3/hns3_flow.c: In function ‘hns3_flow_init’:
> ../drivers/net/hns3/hns3_flow.c:1168:27: error:
> ‘RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
>   1168 |   dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE;
>        |                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../drivers/net/hns3/hns3_flow.c:1168:27: note: each undeclared
> identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> 
> 
> The reason is that this was introduced in 20.11
> 
> commit 80d1a9aff7f6088ea97d78e36de3f9edae018f1c
> Author: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
> Date:   Thu Oct 15 09:07:47 2020 +0800
> 
>      ethdev: make flow API thread safe
> 
> I'm unsure about the potential implications to e.g. just strip declaring
> RTE_ETH_DEV_FLOW_OPS_THREAD_SAFE from your patch so if you'd want to have
> that one applied ti 19.11.x I'd ask you to have a more detailed look
> and consider providing a backport or letting me know that this patch isn't
> needed for 19.11.x
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Christian
>