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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Kavanagh, Mark B" <mark.b.kavanagh@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] mbuf: how to set data to NULL?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:49:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141217164934.GA6980@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC5AD7FA266D86499789B1BCAEC715F846CCD9D9@IRSMSX105.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 04:44:15PM +0000, Kavanagh, Mark B wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> DPDK 1.8.0 removes the data pointer from the mbuf structure, such that the start of the data in the segment buffer must be calculated (i.e. buf_addr + data_off = 'data').
> 
> Given this, what is the best approach to set the mbuf data to NULL (previously mbuf.data = NULL)?
> 
> As I see it, given an initialized mbuf, such that buf_addr is non-null, and data_off =RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM, is it fair to say that the best solution is to memset to 0 from location (buf_addr + data_off) for a length of (data_len - data_off)?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark

Why not just set data_len = 0 to indicate an empty mbuf?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-17 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-17 16:44 Kavanagh, Mark B
2014-12-17 16:49 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2015-02-09 10:51   ` Kavanagh, Mark B
2015-02-09 12:58     ` Bruce Richardson
2015-02-09 13:43       ` Kavanagh, Mark B

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