On 2/3/26 11:07 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 10:56, Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The library is purely internal and linked into the main libopenvswitch
>> during the build.  It should not be marked for installation.  Moving
>> it from 'lib' to 'noinst', so 'make install' doesn't install it to the
>> system.  With that we also don't need to exclude it from the RPM files.
>>
>> Fixes: 352b6c7116cd ("dpif-lookup: add avx512 gather implementation.")
>> Fixes: 9ecaa5cb71b6 ("rhel: openvswitch-fedora.spec.in: Fix installed but 
>> not packaged.")
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
> 
> Won't it break linking against libopenvswitch.a if the avx512 lib
> dependency is not shipped too?
> 
> On a AVX512 system:
> $ nm build/lib/.libs/libopenvswitch.a | grep U.*avx512
>                  U dpcls_subtable_avx512_gather_probe__
>                  U dp_netdev_input_outer_avx512
>                  U mfex_avx512_dot1q_ip_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_dot1q_ip_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_dot1q_ipv6_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_dot1q_ipv6_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_ip_nvgre
>                  U mfex_avx512_ip_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_ip_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_ipv6_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_ipv6_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_dot1q_ip_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_dot1q_ip_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_dot1q_ipv6_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_dot1q_ipv6_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_ip_nvgre
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_ip_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_ip_udp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_ipv6_tcp
>                  U mfex_avx512_vbmi_ipv6_udp
>                  U action_avx512_init
Need to re-check if this actually works with static libraries, I didn't try.
But the library archive itself contains multiple object files and while
these symbols are undefined in one, they are defined in the other:

# ar t lib/.libs/libopenvswitch.a | grep avx512
libopenvswitchavx512_la-dpif-netdev-avx512.o
libopenvswitchavx512_la-dpif-netdev-extract-avx512.o
libopenvswitchavx512_la-dpif-netdev-lookup-avx512-gather.o
libopenvswitchavx512_la-odp-execute-avx512.o

# nm -A lib/.libs/libopenvswitch.a | grep mfex_avx512_ip_udp
lib/.libs/libopenvswitch.a:dpif-netdev-private-extract.o:                 U 
mfex_avx512_ip_udp
lib/.libs/libopenvswitch.a:libopenvswitchavx512_la-dpif-netdev-extract-avx512.o:00000000000002b0
 T mfex_avx512_ip_udp

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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