[dpdk-dev] [PATCH V3] ethdev: add queue state when retrieve queue information

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/15/2021 1:36 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 15/04/2021 14:33, Ferruh Yigit:
>> On 4/15/2021 3:40 AM, Lijun Ou wrote:
>>> Currently, upper-layer application could get queue state only
>>> through pointers such as dev->data->tx_queue_state[queue_id],
>>> this is not the recommended way to access it. So this patch
>>> add get queue state when call rte_eth_rx_queue_info_get and
>>> rte_eth_tx_queue_info_get API.
>>>
>>> Note: After add queue_state field, the 'struct rte_eth_rxq_info' size
>>> remains 128B, and the 'struct rte_eth_txq_info' size remains 64B, so
>>> it could be ABI compatible.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun at huawei.com>
>>
>> Looks good to me, but it is causing an ABI error as we already discussed before
>> as that is false positive.
>>
>>
>> Ray, David,
>>
>> Should we add any exception to libabigail.abignore for this?
> 
> We do not tolerate any ABI warning.
> If we are sure the ABI change is false positive,
> it must be suppressed in libabigail.abignore in the same patch.
> 

A new field is added to public structs, but struct size or the location of the 
existing fields are not changing (struct is cache aligned).

Can you please support how this can be added to 'libabigail.abignore'?

Lijun can you please send a new version with 'libabigail.abignore' update?

Thanks,
ferruh