[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] lpm: hide internal data

Michel Machado michel at digirati.com.br
Fri Oct 16 15:55:12 CEST 2020


>>>>>       If the final choice is for not supporting a way to retrieve the
>>>>> config information on the API, we'll look for a place to keep a copy
>>>>> of the parameters in our code.
>>>> IMO, this is not a performance critical path and it is not a difficult solution to
>>> store these values in the application. My suggestion is to skip adding the API
>>> and store the values in the application.
>>>> Vladimir, what's your opinion?
>>>
>>> Agree. Global vars or part of a global configuration could be used here.
>> Thank you. I think we are fine to go ahead with merging this patch.
>>
> 
> Michel, I know it's a bit of churn so not zero effort, but is that
> solution workable for you? The change in DPDK would not be backported,
> so gatekeeper code would only need an update on updating to use DPDK 20.11.

    It's workable.

    Thank you for organizing this discussion, Kevin.

> P.S. As you are using DPDK 19.08, we should talk about DPDK LTS but
> let's leave that for another thread :-)

    Sure.


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