[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/12] EAL and PCI ABI changes for 19.11

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:10 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:54:12 +0200
> David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Let's prepare for the ABI freeze.
> >
> > The first patches are about changes that had been announced before (with
> > a patch from Stephen that I took as it is ready as is from my pov).
> >
> > The malloc_heap structure from the memory subsystem can be hidden.
> > The PCI library had some forgotten deprecated APIs that are removed with
> > this series.
> >
> > rte_logs could be hidden, but I am not that confortable about
> > doing it right away: I added an accessor to rte_logs.file, but I am fine
> > with dropping the last patch and wait for actually hiding this in the next
> > ABI break.
>
> 19.11 is an api/abi break so maybe do it now.

Did you look at the 4 new patches too?

Same concern + this was not announced before either.
I went and hid more internals, I did not see an impact on really basic bench.

I would appreciate other opinions.


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David Marchand