[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] eal: add cache-line demote support

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 6:21 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> > 1. Experimental tag is only needed in this file. Tags at other places can be removed.
>
> I'm not sure that is the case. The generic file is used when preparing the
> docs, so the experimental tag needs to go there for the docs, but when
> actually using the function in compiled code the "generic" version is
> unused. Therefore we need the experimental tag there to trigger a build
> warning about using the function if the appropriate ALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_APIS
> flag is not set.

It is enough to put an experimental tag when declaring a symbol.
Here, the generic/ header only contains the doxygen part and there is
no common declaration: the tag is needed in the arch specific header.


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David Marchand