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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 02/13] mbuf: reorder fields by time of use
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Hi Bruce,

On 09/03/2014 05:49 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> *  Reorder the fields in the mbuf so that we have fields that are used$
> together side-by-side in the structure. This means that we have a$
> contiguous block of 8-bytes in the mbuf which are used to reset an mbuf$
> of descriptor rearm, and a block of 16-bytes of data (excluding flags)
> which are set on RX from the received packet descriptor.

Some unwanted $ characters here.

> * Use dummy fields as appropraite to ensure alignment or to reserve gaps
> for later field additions.

s/appropraite/appropriate

> * Place most items which are not used by fast-path RX separately at the end
> of the structure so they can later be moved to a separate cache line.
> [The l2/l3 length fields are not moved at this stage as doing so will
> cause overflow to the next cache line].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

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