The basic operations for ports enumeration should not be
considered as experimental in DPDK 18.05.
The iterator RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV was introduced in DPDK 17.05.
It uses the function the rte_eth_find_next_owned_by() to get
only ownerless ports. Its API can be considered stable.
So the flag experimental is removed from rte_eth_find_next_owned_by().
The flag experimental is removed from rte_eth_dev_count_avail()
which is the new name of the old function rte_eth_dev_count().
The flag experimental is set to rte_eth_dev_count_total()
in the .c file for consistency with the declaration in the .h file.
A lot of internal applications are fixed to not allow experimental API.
Fixes: 8728ccf37615 ("fix ethdev ports enumeration")
Fixes: d9a42a69febf ("ethdev: deprecate port count function")
Fixes: e70e26861eaf ("net/mvpp2: fix build")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Tested-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Some DPDK applications wrongly assume these requirements:
- no hotplug, i.e. ports are never detached
- all allocated ports are available to the application
Such application iterates over ports by its own mean.
The most common pattern is to request the port count and
assume ports with index in the range [0..count[ can be used.
There are three consequences when using such wrong design:
- new ports having an index higher than the port count won't be seen
- old ports being detached (RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED) can be seen as ghosts
- failsafe sub-devices (RTE_ETH_DEV_DEFERRED) will be seen by the application
Such mistake will be less common with growing hotplug awareness.
All applications and examples inside this repository - except testpmd -
must be fixed to use the iterator RTE_ETH_FOREACH_DEV.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Add non-EAL libraries to DPDK build. The compat lib is a special case,
along with the previously-added EAL, but all other libs can be build using
the same set of commands, where the individual meson.build files only need
to specify their dependencies, source files, header files and ABI versions.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
