[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] dpdk: Allow for dynamic enablement of some isolated features

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:20:42PM -0700, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 03:58:30PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:36:32AM -0700, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > 
> > > With regards to the general approach for runtime detection of software
> > > functions, I wonder if something like this can be handled by the
> > > packaging system? Is it possible to ship out a set of shared libs
> > > compiled up for different instruction sets, and then at rpm install
> > > time, symlink the appropriate library? This would push the whole issue
> > > of detection of code paths outside of code, work across all our
> > > libraries and ensure each user got the best performance they could get
> > > form a binary?
> > > Has something like this been done before? The building of all the
> > > libraries could be scripted easy enough, just do multiple builds using
> > > different EXTRA_CFLAGS each time, and move and rename the .so's after
> > > each run.
> > 
> > I'm not aware of a package that does anything like that.  It probably
> > is possible, but I imagine that it would provoke a lot of debate
> > and consternation in FESCO...
> 
> Nothing like a bit of consternation to get the adrenaline pumping, right
> :-)
> BTW: what is FESCO?

Fedora Engineering Steering Committee

Neil and I have already felt the hot breath of FESCO on our necks
regarding the Fedora DPDK package...

John
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