[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/13] ethdev: increase length ethernet device internal name

Shreyansh Jain shreyansh.jain at nxp.com
Tue Dec 20 07:53:25 CET 2016


On Tuesday 20 December 2016 03:29 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Allow sufficicent space for UUID in string form (36+1).
> Needed to use UUID with Hyper-V
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
>  lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h        | 6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 2d17bc6e..b83f23a1 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    ``port`` field, may be moved or removed as part of this mbuf work. A
>    ``timestamp`` will also be added.
>
> +* ethdev: for 17.02 the size of internal device name will be increased
> +  to 40 characters to allow for storing UUID.
> +
>  * The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
>    are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
>    PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> index 96781792..3c85e331 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h
> @@ -1652,7 +1652,11 @@ struct rte_eth_dev_sriov {
>  };
>  #define RTE_ETH_DEV_SRIOV(dev)         ((dev)->data->sriov)
>
> -#define RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN (32)
> +/*
> + * Internal identifier length
> + * Sufficiently large to allow for UUID or PCI address
> + */
> +#define RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN 40

Just to clarify my doubt: UUID is 36 byte long. So, 4 extra bytes are to 
keep the name length 4 byte aligned (along with one byte of \0)?

Or, PCI based addressing can stretch 40 bytes?

>
>  /**
>   * @internal
>



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