[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] eal: add manual probing option

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Feb 4 12:07:05 CET 2020


04/02/2020 11:03, Gaetan Rivet:
> On 03/02/2020 23:21, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 03/02/2020 06:16, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula:
> >> @David Marchand @thomas at monjalon.net
> >>
> >> Ping?
> >>
> >> Are there any more changes required for this patch? It's been in queue since last October.
> > 
> > Sorry we have not decided whether it is a good idea or not.
> > 
> > All changes related to probing are very sensitive,
> > and we know a big refactoring would be better than stacking
> > more and more options and corner cases.
> > 
> > As we are busy with ABI stability stuff, we did not allocate
> > enough time to properly think about this feature.
> > Please accept our apologies, and let's consider it as
> > a high priority for 20.05 cycle.
> > 
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> This is unfortunate. I pushed Pavan to accept an alternative implementation of this functionality that was less obtrusive, to make the integration smoother. I took care to alleviate those risks from the common path.
> 
> The big refactoring is needed yes, but considering the current path I'm not seeing it happen in 20.05. If that means taking this patch as-is in 20.05 for Marvell users, I'm not sure much is gained from waiting 3 months, except minimal risk avoidance.


Yes, life is full of bad decisions and consequences.

I still think there is a risk in adding new user expectations,
and maintaining some code to workaround unknown issues.

The real question here is to know why this patch?
Is it to workaround a broken driver?
Or to workaround a broken design in EAL and bus drivers?




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