From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.droids-corp.org (zoll.droids-corp.org [94.23.50.67]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D283989 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:56:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from was59-1-82-226-113-214.fbx.proxad.net ([82.226.113.214] helo=[192.168.0.10]) by mail.droids-corp.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XQtvy-0007e4-Lr; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:04:25 +0200 Message-ID: <540D6264.3040309@6wind.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:01:40 +0200 From: Olivier MATZ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Richardson , dev@dpdk.org References: <1409154628-30825-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <1409240559-14447-3-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1409240559-14447-3-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/6] mbuf: rename RTE_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER into RTE_MBUF_REFCNT X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 07:56:50 -0000 On 08/28/2014 05:42 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > From: Olivier Matz > > It seems that RTE_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER is not the proper name for the > feature it provides. "Scatter gather" means that data is stored using > several buffers. RTE_MBUF_REFCNT seems to be a better name for that > feature as it provides a reference counter for mbufs. > > The macro RTE_MBUF_SCATTER_GATHER is poisoned to ensure this > modification is seen by drivers or applications using it. > > Changes in V2: > * None > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Olivier Matz