[RFC PATCH 7/7] telemetry: change public API to use 64-bit signed values

[lihuisong (C)]

在 2022/12/15 1:53, Tyler Retzlaff 写道:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 09:19:45PM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
>>> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson at intel.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2022 19.28
>>>
>>> While the unsigned values added to telemetry dicts/arrays were up to
>>> 64-bits in size, the sized values were only up to 32-bits. We can
>>> standardize the API by having both int and uint functions take 64-bit
>>> values. For ABI compatibility, we use function versioning to ensure
>>> older binaries can still use the older functions taking a 32-bit
>>> parameter.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>>> ---
>> Excellent example of how to use function versioning for ABI compatibility.
>>
>> Series-acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>
>>
> minor comments that can be optionally addressed. lgtm
>
> Series-acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com>
> .
LGTM
Series-acked-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong at huawei.com>

But I feel this patchset needs to be applied after the following patchset:
http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=26124
The above patchset fixes some problems about possible data truncation and
conversion error, and will backport to stable branch.