[dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH 00/39] adding eventmode helper library

[Thomas Monjalon]

03/07/2019 11:37, Anoob Joseph:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > 03/07/2019 03:35, Anoob Joseph:
> > > [Anoob] Initially the target would be only DPDK applications.
> > > As I had mentioned earlier, I'm dropping the idea of making this a
> > > library/common code. My proposal is to have all the code in
> > > l2fwd-event application itself.
> > > In that case, would you have any problem?
> > 
> > No I think that's fine to do whatever you want in this forked example.
> > But remind that you won't be allowed to fork one more example until things
> > are settled down and approved by the technical board.
> 
> [Anoob] Idea was never to fork any example. If we are in agreement with going with just l2fwd-event (and all the code in one directory), I can start working on v2 patches with the agreed changes.
> 
> Also, what is your suggestion on when we can take up a more complicated example (let's say ipsec-secgw)? When would you say things are settled down?

It was discussed in the techboard today.
Please read the summary below.

We want to keep l2fwd as simple as possible.
So we agree to have a fork of l2fwd for eventdev.

It was proposed to integrate eventdev in l2fwd, l3fwd and ipsec-secgw.
l2fwd will get eventdev integration in its fork l2fwd-event.
l3fwd will get eventdev integration in a separate file.
ipsec-secgw will get more complex eventdev integration.
We don't expect to have more examples impacted.
There will be no code shared for eventdev integration between the examples.

Hope it clarifies the situation.