[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] eal: add manual probing option

Gaetan Rivet grive at u256.net
Tue Feb 4 11:03:22 CET 2020


On 03/02/2020 23:21, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 03/02/2020 06:16, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula:
>> @David Marchand @thomas at monjalon.net
>>
>> Ping?
>>
>> Are there any more changes required for this patch? It's been in queue since last October.
> 
> Sorry we have not decided whether it is a good idea or not.
> 
> All changes related to probing are very sensitive,
> and we know a big refactoring would be better than stacking
> more and more options and corner cases.
> 
> As we are busy with ABI stability stuff, we did not allocate
> enough time to properly think about this feature.
> Please accept our apologies, and let's consider it as
> a high priority for 20.05 cycle.
> 
> 
> 

Hello Thomas,

This is unfortunate. I pushed Pavan to accept an alternative implementation of this functionality that was less obtrusive, to make the integration smoother. I took care to alleviate those risks from the common path.

The big refactoring is needed yes, but considering the current path I'm not seeing it happen in 20.05. If that means taking this patch as-is in 20.05 for Marvell users, I'm not sure much is gained from waiting 3 months, except minimal risk avoidance.


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