[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: fix scope of disabling AVX512F support
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Dec 20 12:29:17 CET 2018
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 08:53:34PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 12/19/2018 8:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 19/12/2018 21:20, Ferruh Yigit:
> >> On 12/19/2018 7:58 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>> 19/12/2018 20:29, Ferruh Yigit:
> >>>> AVX512 was disabled for GCC because of Bugzilla issue 97 [1],
> >>>> the GCC defect submitted for the issue [2] highlighted that this is
> >>>> a known binutils version 2.30 issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> Narrowed the scope of no-avx512 to the this specific binutils version.
> >>> [...]
> >>>> # disable AVX512F support of gcc as a workaround for Bug 97
> >>>> ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_GCC),y)
> >>>> +ifneq ($(filter 2.30%,$(LD_VERSION)),)
> >>>> MACHINE_CFLAGS += -mno-avx512f
> >>>
> >>> I think we should print a warning here.
> >>> There is a function $(warning) or $(info) for such case.
> >>
> >> I can add but it prints warning per component, so it prints a lot.
> >
> > I think we can choose to print only when compiling EAL
> > by checking $(findstring eal,$(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
>
> Thanks for hint, I will use it.
>
> >
> > One more comment: it would be good to have this fix with meson too.
>
> Agreed, only I am not quite sure how to fix it in meson.
One suggestion, but the snippet below in main meson.build file, and put the
printing of a message in one of the EAL meson.build files.
/Bruce
ldver = run_command('ld', '-v').stdout().strip()
if ldver.contains('2.30')
# take action here
endif
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