[dpdk-dev] DPDK Experimental Functions
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Sep 1 15:39:05 CEST 2020
27/08/2020 15:00, Kinsella, Ray:
> Hi All,
>
> During recent work on the DPDK ABI, where we are looking to develop a nightly ABI regression test.
>
> We found a large number of experimental functions currently in DPDK API.
> Currently, there are 537 experimental APIs out of a total of roughly ~1800 API, 30%-ish.
>
> While there is no correct number, as a percentage of the total, this appears to be very high.
> I would question if all these API are really "new" and warrant the status?
>
> There are currently 38 libraries and drivers with experimental functions.
> And to be fair there are number of recently added libraries in list, shown below.
> However there are also a number of libraries that have been around a very long time.
>
> The following libraries and drivers have 10 or more experimental functions:
>
> 1. rte_eal: 119
> 2. rte_ethdev: 43
> 3. rte_vhost: 42
> 4. rte_graph: 35 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 5. rte_compressdev: 34
> 6. rte_rib: 28 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 7. rte_pipeline: 24
> 8. rte_regexdev: 22 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 9. rte_cryptodev: 18
> 10. rte_fib: 16 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 11. rte_ipsec: 15 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 12. rte_telemetry: 12 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 13. rte_mbuf: 11
> 14. rte_rcu: 11 (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 15. rte_bus_fslmc: 11
> 16. rte_bpf: 10 (EXPERIMENTAL)
>
> Do the maintainers of these libraries and drivers,
> A. Feel that experimental status continues to be warranted against these API?
> B. Have plans in place to move all/some of these functions to stable in the 20.11 timeframe?
>
> Kudos to Conor Walsh for pulling this data together.
Do you have a tool to sort experimental functions per age?
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