> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 3:10 PM
> To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>; Nithin Kumar Dabilpuram
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> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v5] cnxk: disable building template files
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:23:12AM +0000, Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:04:29PM +0530,
> [email protected]
> > > wrote:
> > > > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > Disable building template files when CNXK_DIS_TMPLT_FUNC is defined
> > > > as a part of c_args. This option can be used when reworking datapath
> > > > or debugging issues to reduce Rx/Tx path compilation time.
> > > >
> > > > Example command: meson build -Dc_args='-DCNXK_DIS_TMPLT_FUNC'
> > > > -Dexamples=all --cross-file config/arm/arm64_cn10k_linux_gcc
> > > >
> > > Should this option be set in CI by default, or in test-meson-builds by
> > > default? When do we need to avoid setting this flag, vs setting it?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, we can set this option when testing builds to speed things up. We
> > would want to avoid setting the flag when we are packaging or generating
> > release binaries as it will negatively affect fastpath performance.
> >
> > I am not sure how to integrate to test-meson-builds as there is no target
> > option for cn10k/cn9k.
> >
> So, are these template files already not built when building for other
> platforms other than cn10k/cn9k?
I rechecked they are only built when target is aarch64.
