[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] implement common rte bit operation APIs in PMDs

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:55 AM Joyce Kong <joyce.kong at arm.com> wrote:
>
> There are a lot functions of bit operations scattered in PMDs,
> consolidate them into a common API family and applied in different
> PMDs to reduce code duplication.
>
> v2:
>   1. Add doxygen comments for the rte bit operation API(suggested by Stephen Hemminger).
>   2. Add test cases for common rte bit operation API(suggested by Stephen Hemminger).
>   3. Change the header file to rte_io_bitops.h and the operation to rte_io_set_bit()etc.,
>      as the API uses barriers inside and the barriers are only needed for IO operations
>      (suggested by Jerin Jacob).
>   4. Use an well defined uint_NN_t type(suggested by Morten Brørup).

Thanks for working on this.
This series is a cleanup and worth looking at, yet it came rather late.

Discussion and enhancement can still continue, but it will be deferred to 20.02.


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David Marchand