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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:12:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191125081246.GI8680@platinum> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191124055336.129527-1-shahafs@mellanox.com>

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:53:46AM +0000, Shahaf Shuler 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>

An entry in the release note explaining the structure extension may help
the users to anticipate, so they are notified before triggering the
assert.

Then,
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-25  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-18 10:02 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Shahaf Shuler
2019-11-18 16:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
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 [this message]
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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