[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Xen DOM0 runtime support

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed Oct 21 16:40:08 CEST 2015


2015-09-30 10:30, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:14:09 +0200
> David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
> > stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> > > It should be possible to build a single application or library
> > > that will work both in Xen and non-Xen environment. Any special
> > > case handling should be done at runtime.
> > 
> > This patchset looks good, but can you go a step further and completely
> > remove the RTE_LIBRTE_XEN_DOM0 build option ?
> > This requires some more work (igb_uio, app/test), but I think this is worth
> > it all the more so as you are looking into it at the moment.
> 
> I was thinking that for people on embedded systems having
> the build option (which stubs out support) was a good thing.

No we must remove the config options.
It is not in a hot path so there is no reason to disable this support.
Please respin.


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