[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure

[Shahaf Shuler]

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>
---
On v2:
 - rename new field to flags
 - add extra validation in code that flags = 0

---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c | 10 +++++++---
 lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
index 35df1c4c38..bd64c55fe6 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ rte_pktmbuf_pool_init(struct rte_mempool *mp, void *opaque_arg)
 	user_mbp_priv = opaque_arg;
 	if (user_mbp_priv == NULL) {
 		default_mbp_priv.mbuf_priv_size = 0;
+		default_mbp_priv.flags = 0;
 		if (mp->elt_size > sizeof(struct rte_mbuf))
 			roomsz = mp->elt_size - sizeof(struct rte_mbuf);
 		else
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ rte_pktmbuf_pool_init(struct rte_mempool *mp, void *opaque_arg)
 	RTE_ASSERT(mp->elt_size >= sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) +
 		user_mbp_priv->mbuf_data_room_size +
 		user_mbp_priv->mbuf_priv_size);
+	RTE_ASSERT(user_mbp_priv->flags == 0);
 
 	mbp_priv = rte_mempool_get_priv(mp);
 	memcpy(mbp_priv, user_mbp_priv, sizeof(*mbp_priv));
@@ -113,7 +115,11 @@ rte_pktmbuf_pool_create_by_ops(const char *name, unsigned int n,
 	int socket_id, const char *ops_name)
 {
 	struct rte_mempool *mp;
-	struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private mbp_priv;
+	struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private mbp_priv = {
+		.mbuf_data_room_size = data_room_size,
+		.mbuf_priv_size = priv_size,
+		.flags = 0,
+	};
 	const char *mp_ops_name = ops_name;
 	unsigned elt_size;
 	int ret;
@@ -126,8 +132,6 @@ rte_pktmbuf_pool_create_by_ops(const char *name, unsigned int n,
 	}
 	elt_size = sizeof(struct rte_mbuf) + (unsigned)priv_size +
 		(unsigned)data_room_size;
-	mbp_priv.mbuf_data_room_size = data_room_size;
-	mbp_priv.mbuf_priv_size = priv_size;
 
 	mp = rte_mempool_create_empty(name, n, elt_size, cache_size,
 		 sizeof(struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private), socket_id, 0);
diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
index 92d81972ab..219b110b76 100644
--- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
+++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ rte_mbuf_to_priv(struct rte_mbuf *m)
 struct rte_pktmbuf_pool_private {
 	uint16_t mbuf_data_room_size; /**< Size of data space in each mbuf. */
 	uint16_t mbuf_priv_size;      /**< Size of private area in each mbuf. */
+	uint32_t flags; /**< reserved for future use. */
 };
 
 #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_MBUF_DEBUG
-- 
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