[PATCH v4 00/11] remove component-specific logic for AVX builds

[David Marchand]

Hello Bruce,

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 05:29:30PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > A number of libs and drivers had special optimized AVX2 and AVX512 code
> > paths for performance reasons, and these tended to have copy-pasted
> > logic to build those files. Centralise that logic in the main
> > drivers/ and lib/ meson.build files to avoid duplication.
> >
> > v4: rebase on latest main branch
> >     minor fixes following feedback
> >     limit use of -march=skylake-avx512 to when we don't already have a
> >       -march flag supporting AVX512.
> > v3: add patch for event/dlb2 AVX512 handling.
> >     add common code for libraries as well as drivers.
> > v2: add patch 4 to remove use of unnecessary CC_AVX2_SUPPORT flag
> >
> A related follow-up to this patchset. Checking with "godbolt.org", it
> appears that both clang 3.6[1] and gcc 5[2] (the minimum called out compiler
> versions in our docs[1]) support the set of AVX-512 compiler flags we use.
> Therefore, it seems we can simplify our code further by removing the
> "cc_has_avx512" variable.

What about https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90028 ?

You'll need to send a new revision for this series in any case, since
patch 9 broke the crc stuff in the net library.
https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJFAV8w9wYPN+30Hv=batMvP=0M4momKZgmNDFixXbd-9u8t6w@mail.gmail.com/


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David Marchand