[PATCH 0/2] simplify building x86 code with AVX2 support

[David Marchand]

Hello Bruce,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:31 AM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Inside our optimized vector drivers (and libs), there were always build
> time checks for various levels of instruction set support, most
> notably AVX2 and AVX-512 on x86 systems. One of the checks done in
> each case was verifying that the compiler used was able to generate
> AVX code appropriately. However, since this was originally done,
> our minimum compiler support has been updated and so we no longer
> need to check this - all supported compilers can generate AVX2.
> This allows us to simplify the build logic for the x86 vector code.
>
> In future, we can do similarly for AVX-512.
>
> Bruce Richardson (2):
>   build/x86: remove conditional checks for AVX2 support
>   build: remove unnecessary AVX2 compiler flag
>
>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c          |  8 ++++----
>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_rxr.h             |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_txr.h             |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/bnxt/meson.build            | 26 +++++++++----------------
>  drivers/net/enic/meson.build            | 10 +++-------
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c            | 14 ++++---------
>  drivers/net/i40e/meson.build            | 22 ++++++---------------
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_rxtx_vec_common.h |  2 +-
>  drivers/net/iavf/meson.build            | 22 ++++++---------------
>  drivers/net/ice/meson.build             | 21 ++++++--------------
>  lib/acl/meson.build                     | 23 +++++-----------------
>  lib/acl/rte_acl.c                       | 10 +++-------
>  12 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)

Sorry, this series had fallen through the cracks... though I intended
to apply with other build update series.

It still applies fine, I ran my checks and I see nothing wrong with the series.
Applied, thanks for the cleanup.


-- 
David Marchand