[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: add config option to enable asserts

[Thomas Monjalon]

24/08/2017 10:23, Xueming Li:
> Currently, enabling assertion have to set CONFIG_RTE_LOG_LEVEL to
> RTE_LOG_DEBUG. CONFIG_RTE_LOG_LEVEL is the default log level of control
> path, RTE_LOG_DP_LEVEL is the log level of data path. It's a little bit
> hard to understand literally that assertion is decided by control path
> LOG_LEVEL, especially assertion used on data path.
> 
> On the other hand, DPDK need an assertion enabling switch w/o impacting
> log output level, assuming "--log-level" not specified.
> 
> Assertion is an important API to balance DPDK high performance and
> robustness. To promote assertion usage, it's valuable to unhide
> assertion out of COFNIG_RTE_LOG_LEVEL.
> 
> In one word, log is log, assertion is assertion, debug is hot pot :)
> 
> Rationale of this patch is to introduce an dedicate switch of
> assertion: RTE_ENABLE_ASSERT
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>

Applied, thanks