getting rid of type argument to rte_malloc().

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:09:24 +0200
Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:

> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18.24
> > 
> > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:29:51 +0100
> > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at amd.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On 4/24/2024 5:08 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> > > > For the 24.11 release, I want to remove the unused type string  
> > argument  
> > > > that shows up in rte_malloc() and related functions, then percolates  
> > down  
> > > > through.  It was a idea in the 1.0 release of DPDK, never  
> > implemented and  
> > > > never removed.  Yes it will cause API breakage, a large sweeping  
> > change;  
> > > > probably easily scripted with coccinelle.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe doing ABI version now?
> > > >  
> > >
> > > Won't this impact many applications, is there big enough motivation to
> > > force many DPDK applications to update their code, living with it  
> > looks  
> > > simpler.
> > >  
> > 
> > Yeah, probably too big an impact but at least:
> >   - change the documentation to say "do not use" should be NULL
> >   - add script to remove all usage inside of DPDK
> >   - get rid of places where useless arg is passed around inside
> >     of the allocator internals.  
> 
> For the sake of discussion:
> Do we want to get rid of the "name" parameter to the memzone allocation functions too? It's somewhat weird that they differ.

The name is used by memzone lookup for secondary process etc.

> 
> Or are rte_memzone allocations considered init and control path, while rte_malloc allocations are considered fast path?
> 

Not really.