> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richardson, Bruce
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 4:39 PM
> To: Jastrzebski, MichalX K
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/3] lpm: increase number of next hops
> for lpm (ipv4)
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:51:49PM +0200, Michal Jastrzebski wrote:
> > From: Michal Kobylinski <michalx.kobylinski at intel.com>
> >
> > Main implementation - changes to lpm library regarding new data types.
> > Additionally this patch implements changes required by test application.
> > ABI versioning requirements are met only for lpm library,
> > for table library it will be sent in v2 of this patch-set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Kobylinski <michalx.kobylinski at intel.com>
> > ---
> > app/test/test_func_reentrancy.c | 4 +-
> > app/test/test_lpm.c | 227 +++++-----
> > lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.c | 887
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm.h | 295 +++++++++++-
> > lib/librte_lpm/rte_lpm_version.map | 59 ++-
> > lib/librte_table/rte_table_lpm.c | 10 +-
> > 6 files changed, 1322 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/app/test/test_func_reentrancy.c
> b/app/test/test_func_reentrancy.c
> > index dbecc52..331ab29 100644
> > --- a/app/test/test_func_reentrancy.c
> > +++ b/app/test/test_func_reentrancy.c
> > @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static void
> > lpm_clean(unsigned lcore_id)
> > {
> > char lpm_name[MAX_STRING_SIZE];
> > - struct rte_lpm *lpm;
> > + struct rte_lpm_extend *lpm;
>
> I thought this patchset was just to increase the size of the lpm entries, not
> to create a whole new entry type? The structure names etc. should all stay
> the
> same, and let the ABI versionning take care of handling code using the older
> structures.
>
> /Bruce
Hi Bruce,
I see Your point. I think we should use here RTE_NEXT_ABI macro.
The code will have to be duplicated but it will allow to use old names in a new
version.
Michal
