[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] eal/arm64: update CPU flags

[Wei Hu (Xavier)]

Hi, Jerin Jacob

On 2020/8/18 13:07, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:11 AM Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Wei Hu (Xavier) <huwei013 at chinasoftinc.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:44 AM
>>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>>> Cc: xavier.huwei at huawei.com; nd <nd at arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
>>> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Ruifeng Wang
>>> <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; jerinjacobk at gmail.com
>>> Subject: [PATCH v3] eal/arm64: update CPU flags
>>>
>>> From: "Wei Hu (Xavier)" <xavier.huwei at huawei.com>
>>>
>>> SVE is the next-generation SIMD extension of the ARMv8-A AArch64
>>> instruction set.
>>> The related marco definition can be found in linux kernel:
>>>    arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/hwcap.h
>>>
>>> This patch updates cpu SVE flags on ARM64 platform, such as SVE, etc.
> Suggested rewording:
>
> ARM64 Linux kernel updated the CPU flags using the HWCAP scheme.
> This patch incorporates those changes to the eal library.
>
Ok, I will update it in V4.
>>> Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wei Hu (Xavier) <xavier.huwei at huawei.com>
>>> ---
>>> v2 -> v3:
>>>        1. Change commit log.
>>>        2. Add HWCAP2_FLAGM2 and HWCAP2_FRINT to
>>> rte_cpu_feature_table[].
>>>        3. Add the flags for newly added items into enum rte_cpu_flag_t.
>>> v1 -> v2:
>>>        Adds more sve-related definition to rte_cpu_feature_table,
>>>        sunch as SVE2, etc.
>>> ---
>>>   lib/librte_eal/arm/include/rte_cpuflags_64.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>   lib/librte_eal/arm/rte_cpuflags.c            | 13 +++++++++++++
>>>   2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>>
>> How about updating test_cpuflags() too to cover these new flags?
> +1 . Wei, Please update the test_cpuflags() functions for new flags.

OK, I will update this test function in V4.


Thanks

Xavier