Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: align rte_mbuf for Windows

[Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 19 May 2020 20:49:50 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> +Cc more maintainers
> 
> 19/05/2020 20:41, talshn@mellanox.com:
> > From: Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@mellanox.com>
> > 
> > Using uint32_t type bit-fields in Windows will pads the
> > 'L2/L3/L4 and tunnel information' union with additional bits.
> > 
> > This padding causes rte_mbuf size misalignment and the total size
> > increases to 3 cache-lines.
> > 
> > Changed packet_type bit-fields types from uint32_t to uint8_t
> > to allow unified 2 cache-line structure size.
> > 
> > Added the __extension__ attribute over the modified struct to avoid
> > the warning:
> > 
> > type of bit-field ... is a GCC extension [-pedantic]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@mellanox.com>
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h | 11 ++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h index b9a59c879..82441555e 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf_core.h
> > @@ -521,11 +521,12 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
> >  	RTE_STD_C11
> >  	union {
> >  		uint32_t packet_type; /**< L2/L3/L4 and tunnel
> > information. */
> > +		__extension__
> >  		struct {
> > -			uint32_t l2_type:4; /**< (Outer) L2 type.
> > */
> > -			uint32_t l3_type:4; /**< (Outer) L3 type.
> > */
> > -			uint32_t l4_type:4; /**< (Outer) L4 type.
> > */
> > -			uint32_t tun_type:4; /**< Tunnel type. */
> > +			uint8_t l2_type:4; /**< (Outer) L2 type. */
> > +			uint8_t l3_type:4; /**< (Outer) L3 type. */
> > +			uint8_t l4_type:4; /**< (Outer) L4 type. */
> > +			uint8_t tun_type:4; /**< Tunnel type. */
> >  			RTE_STD_C11
> >  			union {
> >  				uint8_t inner_esp_next_proto;
> > @@ -541,7 +542,7 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
> >  					/**< Inner L3 type. */
> >  				};
> >  			};
> > -			uint32_t inner_l4_type:4; /**< Inner L4
> > type. */
> > +			uint8_t inner_l4_type:4; /**< Inner L4
> > type. */ };
> >  	};  
> 
> 
> 

Such a clean and simple solution to what seemed to require compiler
workaround or fix! All offsets are equal on Windows and Linux for the
following toolchains, x86_64:

* cross-compilation with MinGW-w64 6.0.0 GCC 9.3.0
* Windows native MinGW-w64 6.0.0 GCC 8.1.0 and Clang 9.0.1

Tested-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>

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