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From: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>, <matan@nvidia.com>, <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
	<orika@nvidia.com>, <suanmingm@nvidia.com>, <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>, Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] net/mlx5: remove counter alignment
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:26:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251028092611.1755141-1-rongweil@nvidia.com> (raw)

The memory footprint was increased due to the alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_hws_cnt.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_hws_cnt.h b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_hws_cnt.h
index f5b7e8f643..d19a7bf37e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_hws_cnt.h
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_hws_cnt.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ struct mlx5_hws_cnt_dcs_mng {
 };
 
 union mlx5_hws_cnt_state {
-	alignas(RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) RTE_ATOMIC(uint32_t)data;
+	RTE_ATOMIC(uint32_t)data;
 	struct {
 		uint32_t in_used:1;
 		/* Indicator whether this counter in used or in pool. */
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct mlx5_hws_cnt {
 	struct flow_counter_stats reset;
 	union mlx5_hws_cnt_state cnt_state;
 	/* This struct is only meaningful when user own this counter. */
-	alignas(RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE) RTE_ATOMIC(uint32_t)query_gen_when_free;
+	RTE_ATOMIC(uint32_t)query_gen_when_free;
 	/*
 	 * When PMD own this counter (user put back counter to PMD
 	 * counter pool, i.e), this field recorded value of counter
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-28  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-28  9:26 Rongwei Liu [this message]
2025-10-28 10:14 ` Dariusz Sosnowski

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