From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Cc: "olivier.matz@6wind.com" <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:12:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191118081203.3e4980f0@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118100247.74241-1-shahafs@mellanox.com>
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:02:55 +0000
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com> wrote:
> With the API and ABI freeze ahead, it will be good to reserve
> some bits on the private structure for future use.
>
> Otherwise we will potentially need to maintain two different
> private structure during 2020 period.
>
> There is already one use case for those reserved bits[1]
>
> The reserved field should be set to 0 by the user.
>
> [1]
> https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63077/
>
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
> ---
Understand the motivation but in my experience until you know
what it is for, this doesn't work. And it creates lots of dead ends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-18 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-18 10:02 Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-18 16:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-11-19 6:35 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-19 9:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-19 15:23 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-19 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-19 22:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-19 23:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-20 7:01 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-20 15:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-21 14:15 ` Olivier Matz
2019-11-21 12:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-21 14:31 ` Olivier Matz
2019-11-24 5:52 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-24 5:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-24 17:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-11-24 18:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-24 18:10 ` Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-25 8:12 ` Olivier Matz
2019-11-25 10:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-25 10:27 ` Olivier Matz
2019-11-25 21:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
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