[EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] common/cnxk: fix static assertion failure

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/4/2022 10:20 AM, Vamsi Krishna Attunuru wrote:
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>> From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2022 10:52 PM
>> To: Vamsi Krishna Attunuru <vattunuru at marvell.com>; dev at dpdk.org
>> Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar
>> Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>; yux.jiang at intel.com;
>> stable at dpdk.org; Wei Ling <weix.ling at intel.com>; Srikanth Yalavarthi
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>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] common/cnxk: fix static assertion failure
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>> On 3/2/2022 1:46 PM, Vamsi Attunuru wrote:
>>> Use dynamically allocated memory for storing soft expiry ring base
>>> addresses which fixes the static assertion failure, as the size of
>>> dynamic allocation depends on RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS which varies based on
>>> the build config.
>>>
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>> Hi Vamsi,
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>> "fix static assertion failure" is not enough descriptive.
>> assertions already added to verify assumptions, and in this case it seems it
>> failed, but what was actually wrong?
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>> Is it that allocated memory size for ring wrong? (this is what I got from
>> commit log but I am not sure)
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>> Can you please describe what actually was wrong and fixed now?
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> Hi Ferruh,
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> Earlier sa_soft_exp_ring struct member was an array of pointers and it's size is linked to num RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS,
> and the whole struct size is confined and protected by size assertion.  It resulted in build failure with -Dmax_ethports=1024
> option and assertion caught that failure. V2 fixes the issues by allocating the required memory dynamically instead
>   of using array of pointers.
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Thanks Vamsi for details,

I was expecting a new version of patch with updated commit log,
but to make patch for -rc3 I will update it in next-net according
above information

>>> Bugzilla ID: 940
>>> Fixes: d26185716d3f ("net/cnxk: support outbound soft expiry
>>> notification") Cc:stable at dpdk.org
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>>> Reported-by: Wei Ling<weix.ling at intel.com>
>>> Reported-by: Yu Jiang<yux.jiang at intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru<vattunuru at marvell.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi<syalavarthi at marvell.com>
>>> ---
>>> V2: Add bugzilla & reportee details, remove unused changes.
>>> ---
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