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Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:22:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> To: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, ferruh.yigit@intel.com, david.marchand@redhat.com, bruce.richardson@intel.com, andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru, akhil.goyal@nxp.com, Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>, Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:22:47 +0100 Message-ID: <10693239.WuTJGR7auk@thomas> In-Reply-To: <20201027103124.GQ1898@platinum> References: <20201026052105.1561859-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20201026222013.2147904-9-thomas@monjalon.net> <20201027103124.GQ1898@platinum> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 08/15] net/bnxt: switch CFA code to dynamic mbuf field X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> 27/10/2020 11:31, Olivier Matz: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:20:06PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > The CFA code from mark was stored in the deprecated mbuf field udata64. > > It is moved to a dynamic field in order to allow removal of udata64. > > > > Note: the new field has 32 bits, smaller than udata64. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> > > How is it used by an application? > It seems that the cfa code is not always set. Is there a flag to > know when the field is valid? I don't know, and it is PMD-specific, but this behaviour is equivalent with what was before. > Also, for ice and iavf PMDs, we were discussing what is the better > way to export the offset. > > Note that there is an open discussion about how to export dynamic > fields offset for PMDs: > http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20201025071352.221953-1-haiyue.wang@intel.com/T/#mab79dd5cbb7d199a33515b7456dfe1831cf473bc In general I think it is better not exporting the offset, but keep a local copy of it.