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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: <jerinj@marvell.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, <thomas@monjalon.net>, <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	<arybchenko@solarflare.com>, <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	<konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>, <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	<shahafs@mellanox.com>, <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	<gavin.hu@arm.com>, <viktorin@rehivetech.com>,
	<drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	<stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool: fix mempool obj alignment for non x86
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 09:41:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200111094147.35c1ea59@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200111133410.2077135-1-jerinj@marvell.com>

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 19:04:10 +0530
<jerinj@marvell.com> wrote:

> -#define MEMPOOL_F_NO_SPREAD      0x0001 /**< Do not spread among memory channels. */
> +#define MEMPOOL_F_NO_SPREAD      0x0001
> +/**< Do not spread among memory channels. It is a hint to the library,
> + * library honor this hint only when, if it is required by the
> + * (micro) architecture.
> + */

That text is awkward for me to read.
There maybe other reasons in future for mempool to ignore the flag.

I prefer the minor change original comment as:
> -#define MEMPOOL_F_NO_SPREAD      0x0001 /**< Spreading among memory channels not required. */

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-11 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-19 13:42 [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " jerinj
2019-12-20  3:26 ` Gavin Hu
2019-12-20  3:45   ` Jerin Jacob
2019-12-20 10:54     ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: fix mempool obj alignment for nonx86 Morten Brørup
2019-12-20 15:55 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mempool: fix mempool obj alignment for non x86 Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-12-20 16:55   ` Jerin Jacob
2019-12-20 21:07     ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2019-12-21  5:06       ` Jerin Jacob
2019-12-27 15:54         ` Olivier Matz
2020-01-11 13:34 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " jerinj
2020-01-11 17:41   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-01-13  6:49   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " jerinj
2020-01-13  9:46     ` David Marchand
2020-01-13 11:46       ` [dpdk-stable] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran

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