[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 31/41] ethdev: use contiguous allocation for DMA memory

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 03-Mar-18 2:05 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> On 03/03/2018 04:46 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
>> This fixes the following drivers in one go:
> 
> Does it mean that these drivers are broken in the middle of patch set 
> and fixed now?
> If so, it would be good to avoid it. It breaks bisect.
> 

Depends on the definition of "broken". Legacy memory mode will still 
work for all drivers throughout the patchset. As for new memory mode, 
yes, it will be "broken in the middle of the patchset", but due to the 
fact that there's enormous amount of code to review between fbarray 
changes, malloc changes, contiguous allocation changes and adding new 
rte_memzone API's, i favored ease of code review over bisect.

I can of course reorder and roll up several different patchset and all 
driver updates into one giant patch, but do you really want to be the 
one reviewing such a patch?

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Thanks,
Anatoly