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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: fix for incomplete nb_segs types change
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:24:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171114082444.7v2dspzxno2vmbln@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3421519.PnyVhdA6Oj@xps>

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 06:09:35AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > >> Update types of variables to correspond to nb_segs type change from
> > > >> uint8_t to uint16_t.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Fixes: 97cb466d65c9 ("mbuf: use 2 bytes for port and nb segments")
> > > >> Cc: olivier.matz@6wind.com
> > > >> 
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Ilya V. Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> 
> Is there a real benefit to get it in 17.11?

Without this patch:

- cloning a mbuf with more than 255 segments will create an mbuf with an
  invalid number of segments.

- chaining mbufs with rte_pktmbuf_chain() will return an error if the
  resulting mbuf has more than 255 segments.

> Is there a risk?

It is not so critical, since manipulating mbufs with a large number of
segments is a very specific use case.

But the risk seems low, I think we can put it in 17.11.

Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-14  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09 13:51 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: fix for incomplete nb_segs/port " Ilya Matveychikov
2017-11-09 23:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-10 13:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: fix for incomplete nb_segs " Ilya V. Matveychikov
2017-11-13 10:10   ` Olivier MATZ
2017-11-13 10:18     ` Ilya Matveychikov
2017-11-13 10:21       ` Ilya Matveychikov
2017-11-13 10:33       ` Olivier MATZ
2017-11-14  5:09         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-14  8:24           ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2017-11-14 22:46             ` Thomas Monjalon

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