28/04/2021 11:30, Ruifeng Wang: > From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:57 AM Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > The rte_wait_until_equal_xxx APIs abstract the functionality of > > > 'polling for a memory location to become equal to a given value'[1]. > > > > > > Use the API for the rte spinlock and ring implementations. > > > With the wait until equal APIs being stable, changes will not impact ABI. > > > > Afaics, there is no ARM target with WFE enabled and we lost ability to > > enable > > WFE support with removal of the make build system. > > WFE can be enabled with direct meson file change. > WFE is not intended to be enabled by default. It can be enabled based on > benchmarking > result on hardware. > > > > $ git grep RTE_ARM_USE_WFE > > config/arm/meson.build: ['RTE_ARM_USE_WFE', false], > > lib/eal/arm/include/rte_pause_64.h:#ifdef RTE_ARM_USE_WFE > > > > How did you enable WFE to test this series? > > I modified meson file to test. > Tests were also done with WFE disabled to make sure no degradation with > generic implementation.
I don't understand the usage. Which platform should use it? Should it be a compile-time option?