[dpdk-dev] lib: include rte_memory.h for __rte_cache_aligned

[Neil Horman]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 01:36:54AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> 2014-12-10 19:28, Neil Horman:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 07:09:03PM +0000, Jia Yu wrote:
> > > Hi Neil,
> > > 
> > > Moving __rte_cache_aligned right after struct keyword will help. On the
> > > other hand, enforcing this rule for existing (100+) and future definitions
> > > will be difficult. It¹s clearer and a good practice to include header file
> > > explicitly.
> > > 
> > You need to include the header file regardless of what you do.  The advantage to
> > placing the macro right after the struct keyword is that failure to include the
> > header will result in a compiler error, rather than silent behavioral changes
> > and run time breakage.
> > 
> > You don't have to enforce putting the attribute after the struct keyword, I'd
> > say just move them now to protect the current code.  Subsequent patch authors
> > will see the existing style and follow suit.  Or they won't, and we'll point out
> > the issue during review.
> 
> It should be a different patch for next release cycle.
> Let's apply this fix only for 1.8.0.
> 
Why?  Theres no harm in doing so now.
Neil