[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/15] remove mbuf userdata

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/31/2020 3:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 30/10/2020 18:44, Thomas Monjalon:
>> The mbuf field userdata (aliased as udata64)
>> was announced to be removed for two reasons:
>>    - applications, libraries and drivers used the same field
>>      for different purposes, with a risk of usage conflict.
>>    - this field always used 8 bytes even if unneeded
>>
>> Some dynamic fields are created when needed to replace
>> the big static userdata field.
>> As a consequence, 8 bytes can be re-allocated to dynamic fields.
>>
>> This mbuf layout change is important to allow adding more features
>> (consuming more dynamic fields) during the next year.
> 
> Applied
> 

The new txgbe driver in the next-net is also using ‘udata64’, that also needs to 
be updated. cc'ed txgbe maintainer.