From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, pbhagavatula@marvell.com,
Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>,
Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com,
jerinj@marvell.com, mb@smartsharesystems.com,
olivier.matz@6wind.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
david.marchand@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] mbuf: add second dynamic field member for VA only build
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:24:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5861713.UjTJXf6HLC@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc80e7e37896d5076f6e73f1515558b11dfd7e9c.1663767715.git.sthotton@marvell.com>
21/09/2022 15:56, Shijith Thotton:
> mbuf physical address field is not used in builds which only uses VA. It
> is used to expand the dynamic field area.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>
We cannot condition the use of the dynamic field.
I think it is enough justification to reject this patch.
And about adding a compilation option for IOVA in the first patch of this series,
I think it is not the direction the majority wants DPDK to go.
We tend to avoid compilation options.
> @@ -579,15 +579,23 @@ struct rte_mbuf {
> RTE_MARKER cacheline0;
>
> void *buf_addr; /**< Virtual address of segment buffer. */
> - /**
> - * Physical address of segment buffer.
> - * This field is invalid if the build is configured to use only
> - * virtual address as IOVA (i.e. RTE_IOVA_AS_VA is 1).
> - * Force alignment to 8-bytes, so as to ensure we have the exact
> - * same mbuf cacheline0 layout for 32-bit and 64-bit. This makes
> - * working on vector drivers easier.
> - */
> - rte_iova_t buf_iova __rte_aligned(sizeof(rte_iova_t));
> + RTE_STD_C11
> + union {
> + /**
> + * Physical address of segment buffer.
> + * This field is invalid if the build is configured to use only
> + * virtual address as IOVA (i.e. RTE_IOVA_AS_VA is 1).
> + * Force alignment to 8-bytes, so as to ensure we have the exact
> + * same mbuf cacheline0 layout for 32-bit and 64-bit. This makes
> + * working on vector drivers easier.
> + */
> + rte_iova_t buf_iova __rte_aligned(sizeof(rte_iova_t));
> + /**
> + * Reserved for dynamic field in builds where physical address
> + * field is invalid.
> + */
> + uint64_t dynfield2;
> + };
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-28 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-30 16:25 [PATCH] mbuf: add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field Shijith Thotton
2022-06-30 16:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-01 12:16 ` Shijith Thotton
2022-07-01 12:24 ` Shijith Thotton
2022-07-03 7:31 ` Morten Brørup
2022-07-04 14:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-08-03 15:34 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 0/4] mbuf dynamic field expansion Shijith Thotton
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 9:43 ` David Marchand
2022-09-21 14:01 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] build: add meson option to configure IOVA mode as VA Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 12:52 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-29 5:48 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mbuf: add second dynamic field member for VA only build Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 7:24 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2022-09-28 12:52 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-28 19:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-09-28 19:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-29 6:13 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 12:52 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] lib: move mbuf next pointer to first cache line Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 14:07 ` Morten Brørup
2022-09-28 12:52 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-29 6:14 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] drivers: mark Marvell cnxk PMDs work with IOVA as VA Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 12:53 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-29 6:19 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-29 7:44 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-29 8:10 ` Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 20:17 ` Olivier Matz
2022-10-07 20:22 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-21 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] drivers: mark software " Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 5:41 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] mbuf dynamic field expansion Shijith Thotton
2022-09-28 12:52 ` Olivier Matz
2022-09-29 4:51 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 13:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-10-07 19:35 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] mbuf: add API to get and set mbuf physical address Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 20:16 ` Olivier Matz
2022-10-07 20:20 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] test/dma: use API to get mbuf data " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 20:17 ` Olivier Matz
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] build: add meson option to configure IOVA mode as PA Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] mbuf: add second dynamic field member Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] lib: move mbuf next pointer to first cache line Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] drivers: mark cnxk PMDs work with IOVA as PA disabled Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 19:30 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] drivers: mark software " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 20:19 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] mbuf dynamic field expansion Olivier Matz
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] mbuf: add API to get and set mbuf physical address Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] test/dma: use API to get mbuf data " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] build: add meson option to configure IOVA mode as PA Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] mbuf: add second dynamic field member Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] lib: move mbuf next pointer to first cache line Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-10-07 21:30 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] drivers: mark cnxk PMDs work with IOVA as PA disabled Shijith Thotton
2022-10-07 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] drivers: mark software " Shijith Thotton
2022-10-09 9:34 ` [PATCH v5 0/7] mbuf dynamic field expansion Thomas Monjalon
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] build: add meson option to configure IOVA mode as VA Shijith Thotton
2022-09-07 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-09-07 15:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-09-07 21:33 ` Morten Brørup
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mbuf: add second dynamic field member for VA only build Shijith Thotton
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] lib: move mbuf next pointer to first cache line Shijith Thotton
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] drivers: mark Marvell cnxk PMDs work with IOVA as VA Shijith Thotton
2022-09-07 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] drivers: mark software " Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] build: add meson option to configure IOVA mode " Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 18:18 ` Morten Brørup
2022-08-30 8:32 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-08-29 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] mbuf: add second dynamic field member for VA only build Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 18:32 ` Morten Brørup
2022-08-30 8:35 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-08-30 8:41 ` [EXT] " Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
2022-08-30 13:22 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2022-09-07 13:55 ` Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] drivers: mark Marvell cnxk PMDs work with IOVA as VA Shijith Thotton
2022-08-29 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] drivers: mark software " Shijith Thotton
2022-08-30 13:07 ` [PATCH] mbuf: add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field Ferruh Yigit
2022-09-12 13:19 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
2022-06-30 16:55 ` Bruce Richardson
2022-07-01 9:48 ` Olivier Matz
2022-07-01 11:53 ` Slava Ovsiienko
2022-07-01 12:01 ` [EXT] " Shijith Thotton
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