[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 14/40] net/virtio: pack virtio HW struct

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 1/6/21 10:58 AM, David Marchand wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:15 PM Maxime Coquelin
> <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This patch improves the virtio_hw struct packing,
>> going from 88 down to 80 bytes with a 6 bytes hole in
>> the end of the first cacheline. Fields only used in the
>> slow path are placed in the end, so that hot path only
>> uses the first cacheline.
> 
> This also changes some boolean fields to uint8_t but we still assign
> the true/false values to them (in some cases).
> This works, but I would align those fields' assignments to this type change.
> 

Fixed, note it was already inconsistent for some.

Thanks,
Maxime