> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 8:08 AM > To: Zhang, Helin; Ananyev, Konstantin; Richardson, Bruce > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: config files maintenance > > Hi, > > Currently most of the build options are duplicated in 2 config files. > They should be merged in a common file to avoid this kind of differences: > > --- config/common_bsdapp > +++ config/common_linuxapp > -CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=n > +CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=y > -CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_DISABLE=n > +CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE=y > -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC=n > +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC=y > > Can we enable ixgbe SSE on BSD? > CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_DISABLE must be renamed to > CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE, or can we remove this option? > Can we remove i40e bulk alloc option? As the receiving functions are different for bulk_alloc or not, we need this flag.
> Why IEEE1588 is disabled? Can we remove this option? I think the reason was it wanted to show the best performance by default, as more processing are needed for ieee1588 in fast path. I agree with you that we may need to re-think it. Thanks, Helin > > Please help to fix it for the release 2.1. > > After fixing the config, we have to think about simplifying it in 2.2. > It would be easier to have some kind of config overlays: > config_base > config_bsd > config_linux > config_osv > config_gcc > config_icc > config_clang > config_i686 > config_x86_64 > config_x86_x32 > config_ppc_64 > config_tile-tilegx > Then the defconfig files would include the above files. > Or better, we could allow some paramaters to make config: > make config ARCH= OS= CC= > > Thoughts?
