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From: Matthew Hall <mhall@mhcomputing.net>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] difficulty w/ RTE_NEXT_ABI
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:25:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151122002518.GA7196@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2295250.tyqBLnBnCL@xps13>

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The new mbuf provides packet type instead of flags.
> So the processing in this function is changed and the variable name is
> different to reflect this.

But the data type of the variable is the same, and this is an internal 
always_inline function.

So again I am confused what advantage we got from RTE_NEXT_ABI here, and how 
you have multiple copies of RTE_NEXT_ABI on a single symbol when it is a 
binary variable.

This doesn't really answer the bigger question about the reasoning.

Matthew.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-22  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-21  8:49 Matthew Hall
2015-11-21 10:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-22  0:25   ` Matthew Hall [this message]
2015-11-22 20:59     ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-22 23:25       ` Matthew Hall
2015-11-23  0:13         ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-11-23  3:53           ` Matthew Hall

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