29/04/2019 18:39, Mattias Rönnblom: > If LTO builds would work "out of the box", DPDK could gradually migrate > from away from having static inline functions in the header files. > > Those interested squeezing out as much performance as possible would > build with LTO (and static linking), and those applications who cared > more about independent upgrades would use dynamic linking and non-LTO > builds. With the extra cost of using DPDK as a shared library > (-fPIC-compiled code, more expensive TLS accesses etc), I'm guessing > this is the case already today.
That's an interesting point of view. For info, LTO is merged now. I would like to see some benchmarks about LTO static vs shared vs shared without inlines. Then we could decide what to do with inline functions.
