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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jijiang Liu <jijiang.liu@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/9] librte_mbuf:the rte_mbuf structure changes
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:26:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2450996.3KDeDxoTz7@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413881168-20239-2-git-send-email-jijiang.liu@intel.com>

Hi Jijiang,

2014-10-21 16:46, Jijiang Liu:
> Remove the "reserved2" field and add the "packet_type"

"Remove and add" can be said "Replace".

> and the "inner_l2_l3_len" fields in the rte_mbuf structure.

Please explain that you are using 2 bytes of the second cache line
for TX offloading of tunnels.

>  	/* remaining bytes are set on RX when pulling packet from descriptor */
>  	MARKER rx_descriptor_fields1;
> -	uint16_t reserved2;       /**< Unused field. Required for padding */
> +
> +	/**
> +	 * Packet type, which is used to indicate ordinary L2 packet format and
> +	 * also tunneled packet format such as IP in IP, IP in GRE, MAC in GRE
> +	 * and MAC in UDP.
> +	 */
> +	uint16_t packet_type;

Why not name it "l2_type"?

-- 
Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 10:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21  8:45 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/9] Support VxLAN on Fortville Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 1/9] librte_mbuf:the rte_mbuf structure changes Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21 10:26   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-10-21 14:14     ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-22  8:45       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22  8:53         ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-23  2:23         ` Zhang, Helin
2014-11-12 13:26           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-12 14:31             ` Zhang, Helin
2014-11-12 15:23               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-13  3:17             ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-11-13  8:53               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-11-13 11:24                 ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-11-13 11:35                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/9] librte_ether:add VxLAN packet identification API in librte_ether Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21 10:51   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-21 13:48     ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-21 21:19       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22  1:46         ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-22  9:52           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22 12:47             ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-22 13:25               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22  5:21         ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/9] i40e:support VxLAN packet identification in librte_pmd_i40e Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/9] app/test-pmd:test VxLAN packet identification Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 5/9] librte_ether:add data structures of VxLAN filter Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21 15:13   ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22  2:25     ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-22  9:31       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22 11:03         ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-23  9:06           ` Chilikin, Andrey
2014-10-22  6:45     ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-22  9:25       ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-22 13:54         ` Liu, Jijiang
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 6/9] i40e:implement API of VxLAN packet filter in librte_pmd_i40e Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 7/9] app/testpmd:test VxLAN packet filter Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 8/9] i40e:support VxLAN Tx checksum offload Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21  8:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 9/9] app/testpmd:test " Jijiang Liu
2014-10-21 14:54 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 0/9] Support VxLAN on Fortville Liu, Yong

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