[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure

[Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>]

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>
---

Note - am aware no proper RFC was sent before the proposal
deadline of 19.11. However i hope this small change can be
accepeted for the sake of simpler maintainance in the future.

---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
index 92d81972ab..6912594d57 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ rte_mbuf_to_priv(struct rte_mbuf *m)
 struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private {
 	uint16_t mbuf_data_room_size; /**< Size of data space in each mbuf. */
 	uint16_t mbuf_priv_size;      /**< Size of private area in each mbuf. */
+	uint32_t reserved; /**< reserved for future use. */
 };
 
 #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_MBUF_DEBUG
-- 
2.12.0