On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 3:25 PM Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China) <gavin...@arm.com> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:43 AM > > To: Joyce Kong (Arm Technology China) <joyce.k...@arm.com> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; nd <n...@arm.com>; jer...@marvell.com; > > step...@networkplumber.org; m...@smartsharesystems.com; Honnappa > > Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; Gavin Hu (Arm Technology > > China) <gavin...@arm.com>; ravi1.ku...@amd.com; rm...@marvell.com; > > shsha...@marvell.com; xuanziya...@huawei.com; > > cloud.wangxiao...@huawei.com; zhouguoy...@huawei.com; > > adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/6] implement common rte bit operation > > APIs in PMDs > > > > 23/10/2019 04:54, Joyce Kong: > > > There are a lot functions of bit operations scattered in PMDs, > > > consolidate them into a common API family and applied in different > > > PMDs to reduce code duplication. > > > > Please, could you look at what Adrien did in the Mellanox PMD? > > > > http://code.dpdk.org/dpdk/latest/source/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_utils.h#L28 > The code has less duplication, but it requires a less natural declaration of > variables > http://code.dpdk.org/dpdk/latest/source/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h#L607 > Should we take this way?
IMO, We need to consider the MACRO based scheme only as of the last resort. > /Gavin > > > > >