From: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.anan...@huawei.com>
This RFC is submitted as part of ongoing VLA removal discussion:
https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=31680
The main aim is to explore amount of code changes that would be required for
that,
plus explore alternate approaches instead of simple replacing VLAs with
alloca() calls.
It touches core libraries only:
always_enable = [
'cmdline',
'eal',
'ethdev',
'hash',
'kvargs',
'log',
'mbuf',
'mempool',
'meter',
'net',
'pci',
'rcu',
'ring',
'stack',
'telemetry',
]
For just these libs, we have reaonably small number of VLA warnings:
1 ../lib/eal/common
2 ../lib/eal/linux
2 ../lib/rcu
3 ../lib/hash
4 ../lib/ethdev
The series addresses them one by one, on individual basis.
Disclaimer: this is just an RFC, so some approaches might be questionable
(eal_interrupts).
Others (rcu) shall be treated as API change, so can be applied only for 24.11.
The main goal here is to start discussion and find the best possible approach.
Just as FYI, below is the number of VLA warnings per module for all libs and
drivers on my machine
for linux 'default' build with gcc:
1 ../drivers/crypto/cnxk
1 ../drivers/crypto/octeontx
1 ../drivers/crypto/scheduler
1 ../drivers/net/dpaa
1 ../drivers/net/failsafe
1 ../drivers/net/gve
1 ../drivers/net/i40e
1 ../drivers/net/ice
1 ../drivers/net/netvsc
1 ../drivers/net/sfc
1 ../lib/eventdev
1 ../lib/latencystats
1 ../lib/power
2 ../drivers/common/mlx5
2 ../drivers/crypto/ccp
2 ../drivers/crypto/openssl
2 ../drivers/net/nfp
2 ../drivers/net/octeontx
2 ../drivers/net/softnic
2 ../drivers/net/vdev_netvsc
2 ../lib/acl
2 ../lib/dispatcher
2 ../lib/eal/linux
2 ../lib/gro
2 ../lib/pdump
2 ../lib/rcu
3 ../drivers/common/cnxk
3 ../drivers/common/idpf
3 ../drivers/crypto/qat
3 ../drivers/event/dsw
3 ../drivers/net/bnxt
3 ../drivers/net/cxgbe
3 ../drivers/net/ixgbe
3 ../lib/hash
3 ../lib/pdcp
3 ../lib/table
4 ../drivers/net/bonding
4 ../drivers/net/cnxk
4 ../drivers/net/hns3
4 ../drivers/net/tap
4 ../lib/ethdev
5 ../drivers/event/opdl
5 ../drivers/net/dpaa2
5 ../drivers/vdpa/mlx5
5 ../lib/member
6 ../drivers/event/cnxk
6 ../lib/bpf
6 ../lib/vhost
7 ../drivers/common/mlx5/linux
8 ../drivers/net/virtio
10 ../drivers/net/mlx4
11 ../drivers/net/mlx5
13 ../drivers/event/sw
17 ../drivers/net/mlx5/linux
22 ../lib/lpm
61 ../lib/ipsec
Konstantin Ananyev (6):
eal/linux: remove VLA warnings
eal/common: remove VLA warnings
ethdev: remove VLA warnings
hash: remove VLA warnings
hash/thash: remove VLA warnings
rcu: remove VLA warnings
lib/eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 5 +-
lib/eal/linux/eal_interrupts.c | 59 ++++++++--
lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++------------
lib/hash/rte_cuckoo_hash.c | 4 +-
lib/hash/rte_thash.c | 2 +-
lib/hash/rte_thash.h | 8 ++
lib/rcu/rte_rcu_qsbr.c | 7 +-
lib/rcu/rte_rcu_qsbr.h | 5 +
8 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 85 deletions(-)
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