[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool/octeontx2: use noinline to preserve ABI

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu Jul 18 16:43:20 CEST 2019


On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:10:13 +0530
<pbhagavatula at marvell.com> wrote:

> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> 
> Since direct register access is used in npa_lf_aura_op_alloc_bulk()
> use __rte_noinline to preserve ABI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>

Huh? this is an internal function, and the driver is new to DPDK.
We don't maintain ABI with external drivers or code bases.
And ABI with code before it was upstream doesn't count either.


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