[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Nov 18 17:12:03 CET 2019
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:02:55 +0000
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com> wrote:
> With the API and ABI freeze ahead, it will be good to reserve
> some bits on the private structure for future use.
>
> Otherwise we will potentially need to maintain two different
> private structure during 2020 period.
>
> There is already one use case for those reserved bits[1]
>
> The reserved field should be set to 0 by the user.
>
> [1]
> https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/63077/
>
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
> ---
Understand the motivation but in my experience until you know
what it is for, this doesn't work. And it creates lots of dead ends.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
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