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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/7] abi: announce mbuf addition for
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 03:16:01PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-07-02 16:16, John McNamara:
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst
> >  Deprecation Notices
> >  -------------------
> > +
> > +* In DPDK 2.1 the IEEE1588/802.1AS support in the i40e driver makes use of the
> > +  ``udata64`` field in the mbuf to pass the timesync register index to the
> > +  user. In DPDK 2.2 this will be moved to a new field in the mbuf.
> 
> We need more acknowledgements for this decision, as stated here:
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/doc/guides/guidelines/versioning.rst#n51

Why can't this new field just be added at the end of cache line 1 (the second
cache line) of the mbuf? That would avoid any ABI breakage and would mean we
can just put the change in in this release, instead of waiting.

/Bruce