[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] stack: remove experimental tag from API

[Ray Kinsella]

Hi Gage,

Do you have any idea.
If the change from experimental to stable symbol is likely to break anyone's application?
(are folks actively using the api with shared libraries)

If so, you _may_ consider offering a temporary alias to experimental until the v21 is declared at 20.11.
This is entirely at your discretion, see
https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/abi_versioning.html (4.3.1.4)

Please see my additional comments on the map file below.

On 28/05/2020 02:04, Gage Eads wrote:
> The stack library was first released in 19.05, and its interfaces have been
> stable since their initial introduction. This commit promotes the full
> interface to stable, starting with the 20.08 ABI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.h           | 29 -----------------------------
>  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf.h        |  2 --
>  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_std.h       |  3 ---
>  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_version.map |  2 +-
>  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.h b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.h
> index 27ddb199e..343dd019a 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack.h
> @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
>  
>  /**
>   * @file rte_stack.h
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
>   *
>   * RTE Stack
>   *
> @@ -98,9 +97,6 @@ struct rte_stack {
>  #include "rte_stack_lf.h"
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Push several objects on the stack (MT-safe).
>   *
>   * @param s
> @@ -112,7 +108,6 @@ struct rte_stack {
>   * @return
>   *   Actual number of objects pushed (either 0 or *n*).
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  rte_stack_push(struct rte_stack *s, void * const *obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  {
> @@ -126,9 +121,6 @@ rte_stack_push(struct rte_stack *s, void * const *obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Pop several objects from the stack (MT-safe).
>   *
>   * @param s
> @@ -140,7 +132,6 @@ rte_stack_push(struct rte_stack *s, void * const *obj_table, unsigned int n)
>   * @return
>   *   Actual number of objects popped (either 0 or *n*).
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  rte_stack_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  {
> @@ -154,9 +145,6 @@ rte_stack_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Return the number of used entries in a stack.
>   *
>   * @param s
> @@ -164,7 +152,6 @@ rte_stack_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>   * @return
>   *   The number of used entries in the stack.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  rte_stack_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>  {
> @@ -177,9 +164,6 @@ rte_stack_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Return the number of free entries in a stack.
>   *
>   * @param s
> @@ -187,7 +171,6 @@ rte_stack_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>   * @return
>   *   The number of free entries in the stack.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  rte_stack_free_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>  {
> @@ -197,9 +180,6 @@ rte_stack_free_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Create a new stack named *name* in memory.
>   *
>   * This function uses ``memzone_reserve()`` to allocate memory for a stack of
> @@ -226,28 +206,20 @@ rte_stack_free_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>   *    - ENOMEM - insufficient memory to create the stack
>   *    - ENAMETOOLONG - name size exceeds RTE_STACK_NAMESIZE
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  struct rte_stack *
>  rte_stack_create(const char *name, unsigned int count, int socket_id,
>  		 uint32_t flags);
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Free all memory used by the stack.
>   *
>   * @param s
>   *   Stack to free
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  void
>  rte_stack_free(struct rte_stack *s);
>  
>  /**
> - * @warning
> - * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
> - *
>   * Lookup a stack by its name.
>   *
>   * @param name
> @@ -258,7 +230,6 @@ rte_stack_free(struct rte_stack *s);
>   *    - ENOENT - Stack with name *name* not found.
>   *    - EINVAL - *name* pointer is NULL.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  struct rte_stack *
>  rte_stack_lookup(const char *name);
>  
> diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf.h b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf.h
> index e67630c27..eb106e64e 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
>   * @return
>   *   Actual number of objects enqueued.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  __rte_stack_lf_push(struct rte_stack *s,
>  		    void * const *obj_table,
> @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ __rte_stack_lf_push(struct rte_stack *s,
>   * @return
>   *   - Actual number of objects popped.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  __rte_stack_lf_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  {
> diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_std.h b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_std.h
> index 7142cbf8e..ae28add5c 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_std.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_std.h
> @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
>   * @return
>   *   Actual number of objects pushed (either 0 or *n*).
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  __rte_stack_std_push(struct rte_stack *s, void * const *obj_table,
>  		     unsigned int n)
> @@ -59,7 +58,6 @@ __rte_stack_std_push(struct rte_stack *s, void * const *obj_table,
>   * @return
>   *   Actual number of objects popped (either 0 or *n*).
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  __rte_stack_std_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>  {
> @@ -94,7 +92,6 @@ __rte_stack_std_pop(struct rte_stack *s, void **obj_table, unsigned int n)
>   * @return
>   *   The number of used entries in the stack.
>   */
> -__rte_experimental
>  static __rte_always_inline unsigned int
>  __rte_stack_std_count(struct rte_stack *s)
>  {
> diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_version.map b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_version.map
> index 6662679c3..22c703d3b 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_version.map
> +++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_version.map
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -EXPERIMENTAL {
> +DPDK_20.0.3 {
>  	global:
>  
>  	rte_stack_create;
> 

Should be DPDK_21, the next major ABI version is v21.