[dpdk-dev] Forcing inlining for igb_uio and kni

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Tue Jun 11 10:45:33 CEST 2019


I noticed that OVS CI [1] patches the dpdk sources to force some inlining
parameters and get kni and igb_uio to build fine.

Looking at it in dpdk, meson support dropped this.
In the makefiles, I can't find a reason in the git history (we go back to
1.3.0rX version).

[dmarchan at dmarchan dpdk]$ git grep max-inline-insns-single
kernel/linux/igb_uio/Makefile:MODULE_CFLAGS += -I$(SRCDIR) --param
max-inline-insns-single=100
kernel/linux/kni/Makefile:MODULE_CFLAGS += -I$(SRCDIR) --param
max-inline-insns-single=50
[dmarchan at dmarchan dpdk]$ git blame origin/master --
kernel/linux/igb_uio/Makefile |grep max-inline-insns-single
13dc56a6 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/Makefile (Intel
 2012-12-20 00:00:00 +0100 15) MODULE_CFLAGS += -I$(SRCDIR) --param
max-inline-insns-single=100
[dmarchan at dmarchan dpdk]$ git blame origin/master --
kernel/linux/kni/Makefile |grep max-inline-insns-single
3fc5ca2f lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/Makefile (Intel            2012-12-20
00:00:00 +0100 14) MODULE_CFLAGS += -I$(SRCDIR) --param
max-inline-insns-single=50

Is there a valid reason to keep this?
1: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/.travis/linux-build.sh#L81


-- 
David Marchand


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