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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Stanislaw Kardach <kda@semihalf.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, phil.yang@arm.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/3] stack: add lock-free support indication
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:54:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210427135450.GN1726@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210412082901.652736-3-kda@semihalf.com>

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:29:00AM +0200, Stanislaw Kardach wrote:
> Currently it is impossible to detect programatically whether lock-free
> implementation of rte_stack is supported. One could check whether the
> header guard for lock-free stubs is defined (_RTE_STACK_LF_STUBS_H_) but
> that's an unstable implementation detail. Because of that currently all
> lock-free ring creations silently succeed (as long as the stack header
> is 16B long) which later leads to push and pop operations being NOPs.
> The observable effect is that stack_lf_autotest fails on platforms not
> supporting the lock-free. Instead it should just skip the lock-free test
> altogether.
> 
> This commit adds a new errno value (ENOTSUP) that may be returned by
> rte_stack_create() to indicate that a given combination of flags is not
> supported on a current platform.
> This is detected by checking a compile-time flag in the include logic in
> rte_stack_lf.h which may be used by applications to check the lock-free
> support at compile time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Kardach <kda@semihalf.com>
> Fixes: 7911ba0473e0 ("stack: enable lock-free implementation for aarch64")
> Cc: phil.yang@arm.com
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-12  8:28 [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/3] add lock-free stack support discovery Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-12  8:28 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 1/3] stack: update lock-free supported archs Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-27 13:54   ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-12  8:29 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/3] stack: add lock-free support indication Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-27 13:54   ` Olivier Matz [this message]
2021-04-12  8:29 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 3/3] test: run lock-free stack tests when supported Stanislaw Kardach
2021-04-27 13:55   ` Olivier Matz
2021-04-16  6:34 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] add lock-free stack support discovery David Marchand
2021-04-19 14:44   ` Stanisław Kardach
2021-05-03 14:21 ` David Marchand
2021-05-03 14:28   ` Olivier Matz
2021-05-03 18:34     ` Stanisław Kardach
2021-05-04  6:44       ` David Marchand
2021-05-04  6:44 ` David Marchand

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