[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/5] mbuf: support register mempool Hw ops name APIs

[Jerin Jacob]

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:41:12 +0530
> From: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> CC: jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com, olivier.matz at 6wind.com,
>  santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com
> Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] mbuf: support register mempool Hw ops name APIs
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> 
> With this patch the specific HW mempool are no longer required to be
> specified in the config file at compile. A default platform hw mempool
> can be detected dynamically and published to config at run time.
> Only one type of HW mempool can be active default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_mbuf/Makefile             |  1 +
>  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c           | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h           | 20 +++++++++++++++++
>  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_version.map |  8 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/Makefile b/lib/librte_mbuf/Makefile
> index 398f724..85c4f9e 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/Makefile
> +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/Makefile
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ include $(RTE_SDK)/mk/rte.vars.mk
>  LIB = librte_mbuf.a
>  
>  CFLAGS += $(WERROR_FLAGS) -I$(SRCDIR) -O3
> +CFLAGS += -I$(RTE_SDK)/lib/librte_eal/common
>  LDLIBS += -lrte_eal -lrte_mempool
>  
>  EXPORT_MAP := rte_mbuf_version.map
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> index c085c37..fd3b6f5 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
>  #include <rte_hexdump.h>
>  #include <rte_errno.h>
>  #include <rte_memcpy.h>
> +#include <eal_internal_cfg.h>
>  
>  /*
>   * ctrlmbuf constructor, given as a callback function to
> @@ -148,6 +149,43 @@ rte_pktmbuf_init(struct rte_mempool *mp,
>  	m->next = NULL;
>  }
>  
> +int
> +rte_mbuf_register_platform_mempool_ops(const char *ops_name)
> +{

Should we also check the following?

if (internal_config.plat_mbuf_pool_ops_name != NULL &&
strncmp(internal_config.plat_mbuf_pool_ops_name, ops_name, ..) == 0)
	return 0;

i.e avoid returning error if the same the driver but another
instance(different ethdev port) updates the same ops_name value.