[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] mbuf: extend pktmbuf pool private structure

[Olivier Matz]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:53:46AM +0000, Shahaf Shuler 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>

An entry in the release note explaining the structure extension may help
the users to anticipate, so they are notified before triggering the
assert.

Then,
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>