From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2418A7CBF for ; Mon, 29 May 2017 14:41:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 29 May 2017 05:41:31 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.38,414,1491289200"; d="scan'208";a="92568428" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.81]) ([10.237.220.81]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 29 May 2017 05:41:31 -0700 To: Matej Vido , dev@dpdk.org References: <1495821956-5050-1-git-send-email-vido@cesnet.cz> <1495821956-5050-3-git-send-email-vido@cesnet.cz> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:41:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1495821956-5050-3-git-send-email-vido@cesnet.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] net/szedata2: refactor ibuf and obuf address definition X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:41:33 -0000 On 5/26/2017 7:05 PM, Matej Vido wrote: > This is to prepare for firmwares with multiple ibufs and obufs. > Offsets of ibufs and obufs are defined in array. I was thinking ibufs and obufs as queues, but since link functions updated per ibufs it looks like ports, can you please provide some information what is ibufs and obufs? What is the benefit of having multiple ibufs and obufs? > Functions which operate on ibufs and obufs iterate over this array. > > Signed-off-by: Matej Vido <...>