[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 00/10] introduce telemetry library

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Oct 9 19:07:11 CEST 2018


09/10/2018 16:56, Bruce Richardson:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:41:10PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > I think it is not clean.
> > We should really split EAL in two parts:
> > 	- low level routines
> > 	- high level init.
> > 
> > About telemetry, you can find any workaround, but it must be temporary.
> > 
> 
> In fairness, though, splitting up EAL is a fairly significant piece of work
> to just throw out there as a suggestion to people! Have you investigated
> what it would take for that, or looked at the implications of it? It's
> probably not something that one can just sit and do in the spur of the
> moment.

For sure, it is a massive work.
That's why I agree to have a workaround in the meantime.

I did not check the implications in details.
The issue with such clean-up of DPDK design is to find someone
willing to work on it.




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