>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 8:13 PM
>To: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <[email protected]>
>Cc: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <[email protected]>; Nithin Kumar
>Dabilpuram <[email protected]>; Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
><[email protected]>; [email protected]
>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
><[email protected]> wrote:
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>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <[email protected]>
>>
>> Since direct register access is used in npa_lf_aura_op_alloc_bulk()
>> use __rte_noinline to preserve ABI.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <[email protected]>
>
>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.
