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>From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:13 PM
>To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
>Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jer...@marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar
>Dabilpuram <ndabilpu...@marvell.com>; Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
><vattun...@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool/octeontx2: use
>noinline to preserve ABI
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>On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 00:10:13 +0530
><pbhagavat...@marvell.com> wrote:
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>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
>>
>> Since direct register access is used in npa_lf_aura_op_alloc_bulk()
>> use __rte_noinline to preserve ABI.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
>
>Huh? this is an internal function, and the driver is new to DPDK.
>We don't maintain ABI with external drivers or code bases.
>And ABI with code before it was upstream doesn't count either.
I was actually referring to arm64 ABI[1]
I think commit message in v2 describes it better
http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/56703/
[1]
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055b/IHI0055B_aapcs64.pdf
Regards,
Pavan.
