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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Gregory Etelson <getelson@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
	Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>,
	Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@oss.nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/multi_process: fix RX packets distribution
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:30:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2000101.8nMyBBQigM@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR12MB2631612C306852A0CCCBF60DA5929@BYAPR12MB2631.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

09/11/2021 07:42, Gregory Etelson:
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> > 
> > 28/10/2021 17:35, Burakov, Anatoly:
> > > On 28-Oct-21 4:14 PM, Gregory Etelson wrote:
> > > >>> -     uint8_t client = 0;
> > > >>> +     static uint8_t client = 0;
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov
> > <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> > 
> > checkpatch has a message for you:
> > ERROR:INITIALISED_STATIC: do not initialise
> > statics to 0
> > 
> 
> Turning the `client` variable to static ensured that the next time
> the function will be called it will proceed iterating clients instead of
> starting a loop from the beginning - that's the main idea of that patch.
> The variable must be initialized to 0 because the application model 
> requires at least a single client with index 0.
> ANSI C allows static variables initialization to any valid value.
> Do you know why the checkpatch utility denied such initialization ?

ANSI C makes static variables iniatilized to 0 by default.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-09  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-26  9:50 Gregory Etelson
2021-10-28 14:29 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-10-28 15:14   ` Gregory Etelson
2021-10-28 15:35     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2021-11-08 21:27       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-09  6:42         ` Gregory Etelson
2021-11-09  7:30           ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2021-11-09  9:35             ` Gregory Etelson
2021-11-09  9:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] examples/multi_proces: fix Rx " Gregory Etelson
2021-11-09 11:35   ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-09 11:49     ` Gregory Etelson
2021-11-09 14:17       ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-10 16:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Gregory Etelson
2021-11-10 16:57 ` [PATCH v4] examples/multi_process: " Gregory Etelson
2021-11-16 15:07   ` David Marchand

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