[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/3] eal/x86: run-time dispatch over memcpy

[Richardson, Bruce]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Li, Xiaoyun
> Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 12:19 PM
> To: Ananyev, Konstantin <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Zhang, Helin
> <helin.zhang at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon
> (thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com) <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 1/3] eal/x86: run-time dispatch over memcpy
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ananyev, Konstantin
> > Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 17:37
> > To: Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
> > <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > Cc: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Zhang, Helin
> > <helin.zhang at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Thomas Monjalon
> > (thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com) <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v6 1/3] eal/x86: run-time dispatch over memcpy
> >
> > > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> > > b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> > > index 8c08b8d..15a2fe9 100644
> > > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> > > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map
> > > @@ -241,5 +241,6 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> > >  	rte_service_runstate_set;
> > >  	rte_service_set_stats_enable;
> > >  	rte_service_start_with_defaults;
> > > +	rte_memcpy_ptr;
> > >
> > >  } DPDK_17.08;
> >
> > I am not an expert in DPDK versioning system, But shouldn't we create
> > a
> > 17.11 section here?
> Should we create a 17.11 section? I am not sure who to ask for.
> 
Any new functions that are public and are added in the 17.11 release need to
be added to the map file in a new 17.11 section. They are not part of the
ABI for the 17.08 release as they were not present there.