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From: "Simon Kågström" <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
To: "Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	 "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mbuf/ip_frag: Move mbuf chaining to common code
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:40:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EEBB33.6050300@netinsight.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2601191342CEEE43887BDE71AB97725836A841A7@irsmsx105.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 2015-09-08 01:21, Ananyev, Konstantin wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. I got it wrong anyway, what I wanted was to be able to handle
>> the day when nb_segs changes to a 16-bit number, but then it should
>> really be
>>
>>   ... >= 1 << (sizeof(head->nb_segs) * 8)
>>
>> anyway. I'll fix that and also add a warning that the implementation
>> will do a linear search to find the tail entry.
> 
> Probably just me, but I can't foresee the situation when  we would need to increase nb_segs to 16 bits.
> Looks like an overkill to me.

I don't think it will happen either, but with this solution, this
particular piece of code will work regardless. The value is known at
compile-time anyway, so it should not be a performance issue.

// Simon

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-08 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 12:41 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC] " Simon Kagstrom
2015-09-07  7:32 ` Olivier MATZ
2015-09-07  9:13   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-09-07  9:35     ` Olivier MATZ
2015-09-07 10:40       ` Simon Kågström
2015-09-07 11:43         ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Simon Kagstrom
2015-09-07 12:32           ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-09-07 12:41             ` Simon Kågström
2015-09-07 23:21               ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-09-08 10:40                 ` Simon Kågström [this message]
2015-09-09  8:22                   ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2015-09-07 12:50           ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Simon Kagstrom
2015-10-13 12:50             ` Simon Kagstrom
2015-10-13 13:17               ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-13 13:11             ` Olivier MATZ

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