09/10/2018 16:56, Bruce Richardson: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 01:41:10PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > I think it is not clean. > > We should really split EAL in two parts: > > - low level routines > > - high level init. > > > > About telemetry, you can find any workaround, but it must be temporary. > > > > In fairness, though, splitting up EAL is a fairly significant piece of work > to just throw out there as a suggestion to people! Have you investigated > what it would take for that, or looked at the implications of it? It's > probably not something that one can just sit and do in the spur of the > moment.
For sure, it is a massive work. That's why I agree to have a workaround in the meantime. I did not check the implications in details. The issue with such clean-up of DPDK design is to find someone willing to work on it.