Re: [PATCH v5] graph: expose node context as pointers

["Robin Jarry" <rjarry@redhat.com>]

Sad :(

> The introduced anonymous structure gets aligned on the minimum cache
> line size (64 bytes): with this change, ctx[] move from offset 256, to
> offset 192.
> Similarly, nodes[] moves from offset 320 to offset 256.
>
> As we discussed offlist, there are a few options to workaround this
> issue (like moving nodes[] inside the anonymous struct though it still
> results in an increased rte_node struct, or like adding an explicit
> padding field right before the newly introduced anonymous struct,
> ...).
[snip]
> For those two reasons, it is better to revisit this patch and have it
> ready for the next release.
> While at it, it may be worth cleaning up the rte_node structure in
> v24.11, if so, please announce in a deprecation notice for this
> planned ABI breakage.

Jerin, wouldn't it be better if we managed to fill in that 64 bytes 
hole?

I don't know what to announce precisely about the breakage nature.