> On Mar 6, 2024, at 4:31 PM, Paul Szczepanek <paul.szczepa...@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/03/2024 10:33, Morten Brørup wrote:
>> I think that a misconception that arch specific optimizations (such as SIMD
>> code) required stuff to go into EAL has been prevailing, and this
>> misconception is a main reason why EAL has become so bloated.
>> Moving features like pointer compression out of EAL, thereby showing
>> alternative design patterns for code containing arch specific optimizations,
>> will help eliminate that misconception.
>
> I have a patch ready that moves the ptr compress into its own library but I
> must first land this patch:
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20240306221709.166722-2-paul.szczepa...@arm.com/
> which is required to have header only libraries - otherwise errors stop the
> build.
You can add dependencies to your patch. You do not have to wait for the patch
to be merged. I believe the CI takes care of the dependencies as well. Please
check: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html#patch-dependencies
