[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] use generated flags for SSE and AVX checks

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 12/5/2016 3:59 PM, thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com (Thomas Monjalon) wrote:
> 2016-12-05 16:34, Thomas Monjalon:
>> Clean up the code to always use the flags RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_*
>> generated by the DPDK makefile rte.cpuflags.mk.
> 
> This patch does not work because RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* are generated
> for the whole library when including rte.vars.mk.
> So the flags are not accurate when overriding the flags per file like
> it is done in rte_acl.
> 
> So the questions are:
> 	- should we use RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_?
> 	- should we override the flags per file?
> 	- will we be able to use the function attribute __target__?
> 

Hi Thomas,

This patch is waiting for a comment for two years, is it still valid, if not can
we mark it as rejected?

For record, it is: https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/17684/

Thanks,
ferruh