[dpdk-dev] [PATCH V1 1/1] jobstats: added function abort for job

[Panu Matilainen]

On 01/27/2016 05:57 PM, Jastrzebski, MichalX K wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Panu Matilainen
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:38 PM
>> To: Kerlin, MarcinX <marcinx.kerlin at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH V1 1/1] jobstats: added function abort for job
>>
>> On 01/26/2016 06:15 PM, Marcin Kerlin wrote:
>>> This patch adds new function rte_jobstats_abort. It marks *job* as finished
>>> and time of this work will be add to management time instead of execution
>> time.
>>> This function should be used instead of rte_jobstats_finish if condition
>> occure,
>>> condition is defined by the application for example when receiving n>0
>> packets.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Kerlin <marcinx.kerlin at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>    lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.c           | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>    lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.h           | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>>    lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats_version.map |  7 +++++++
>>>    3 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
>>>
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.h
>> b/lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.h
>>> index de6a89a..9995319 100644
>>> --- a/lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.h
>>> +++ b/lib/librte_jobstats/rte_jobstats.h
>>> @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ struct rte_jobstats {
>>>    	uint64_t exec_cnt;
>>>    	/**< Execute count. */
>>>
>>> +	uint64_t last_job_time;
>>> +	/**< Last job time */
>>> +
>>>    	char name[RTE_JOBSTATS_NAMESIZE];
>>>    	/**< Name of this job */
>>>
>>
>> AFAICS this is an ABI break and as such, needs to be preannounced, see
>> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html
>> For 2.3 it'd need to be a CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI feature.
>>
>> 	- Panu -
>
> Hi Panu,
> Thanks for Your notice. This last_job_time field is actually not necessary here
> and will be removed from this structure.

Right, makes sense. You can always add it later on when there's a more 
pressing need to break the ABI.

	- Panu -